CensusAtSchool » Dot plots

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.

Masterpiece 3

Joanne Woodward — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:47:18 +0000

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a scientist and an artist. He thought that the span of someone’s arms was equal to their height. Why do you think he was interested in working out body proportions?

Do you think Leonardo’s theories still work today?

Was Leonardo’s theory that a person’s height is equal to their arm span true for New Zealand students in 2007?

Masterpiece 2

Joanne Woodward — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:02:01 +0000

Do you think Leonardo’s theories still work today?

Was Leonardo’s theory that a person’s height is equal to their arm span true for New Zealand students in 2007?

Masterpiece 1

Joanne Woodward — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:42:03 +0000

Do you think Leonardo’s theories still work today?

Was Leonardo’s theory that a person’s height is equal to their arm span true for New Zealand students in 2007?

Big Foot

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:23:33 +0000

Who has bigger feet, girls or boys?

8 Glasses per Day?

Joanne Woodward — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:14:30 +0000

Do you drink 8 glasses of water per day? This is the recommended number of glasses of water we should drink each day.

Do New Zealand students drink water regularly? Can you predict what a graph of a sample of students will look like?

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.