CensusAtSchool » Average

Analysis tools

Pip — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:00:05 +0000

This activity will probably take at least two periods (100 minutes approx).

Students will be working with investigative questions they have posed previously (see activity on posing questions) or investigative questions they pose in this session for the given data set they are working with. This particular activity is designed for using CensusAtSchool data.

Using data cards

Pip — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:40 +0000

This activity leads on from the posing investigative questions activity.

Students will need to be familiar with the background information to the data set. This may involve looking at the variables in the dataset, looking at how the data was collected and measured, looking at the survey question that was asked to get the data.

In this activity students will be exploring the given data cards in response to investigative questions they have posed. In some instances students might organise the data cards and then pose their investigative question once they have found something of interest in their data cards (EDA- exploratory data analysis).

This activity will also allow students to develop the language of description for summary situations.

Tell it like it is!

Joanne Woodward — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:03:44 +0000

One of the most important aspects of statistics is writing your conclusion. It can be compared to reading the last chapter in a book or writing your final paragraph in an essay.

What we can conclude from some data we are given?

Are you getting enough Zzz?

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:49 +0000

Compare the number of hours students who own cell phone sleep to the number of hours students who don’t own cell phones sleep and also with the number of hours students who sent more than 50 text messages slept.

Bear Hugs 3

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:26:40 +0000

Do boys have longer arm spans than girls?

Bear Hugs 2

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:22:32 +0000

Do our arms get longer as we get older?

In this activity you will explore whether the length of your arm span is related to how old you are.

Bear Hugs 1

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:59:46 +0000

To give an awesome bear hug you need really long arms so that your arms get all the way around the person you are hugging.

Does the average student have arms long enough to give a bear with a circumference of 160cm a hug?

In this activity you will explore how long the average arm span is.