What Is an Average?
This full lesson plan, plus dataset and worksheet, from CensusAtSchool is designed to help students understand the different types of average, how to calculate and compare them and which average it is appropriate to use for a particular data set.
5/5- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Sample Data Handling
This resource from CensusAtSchool aimed at Year Nine students is a complete set of five or six lessons which gives an idea of how to implement the project in the classroom using the students' own data. There are comprehensive teachers’ notes, a dataset of over 100 students attributes, likes and dislikes. A problem…
Fee Fi Foo Fum
This lesson plan with starter, main and plenary from CensusAtSchool suitable for Year Eight students develops the concept of ratio. Students will Investigate the Golden Ratio (also known as Phi) using the ratio of height to belly button height data collected and presented as a dataset. The resource comes complete with lesson…
Data With No Name
In this resource from CensusAtSchool, a set of data is presented with little background information. Students are invited, via a series of questions, to turn the data into usable, useful information applying both mathematical reasoning and use of statistical methods. It encourages the use of spreadsheets as a means to further…
Cleaning the Data
When you have a set of data the first thing you need to do is to check it out and eliminate any obviously wrong or false data. This is called “Cleaning the Data”. This resource from CensusAtSchool provides a spreadsheet where several playful students have been deliberately tampering with the data. Students are…
Fillings
In this resource from CensusAtSchool, students are asked to apply their knowledge of the Poisson distribution to real life data in the context of a school problem. This resource is good at contextualising and reinforcing understanding of the Poisson distribution, it requires students to consider developing a mathematical model with…