Bear hugs 3
Do boys have longer arm spans than girls?
A comparative analysis investigating the lengths of armspans of boys and girls. Students use a variety of displays and summative statistics and are led through how to write appropriate conclusions.
Resources:
See Bear Hugs 1 and Bear Hugs 2 for previous iNZight instructional videos
Achievement Objectives
- Level 5
- S5-1Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- B considering sources of variation
- D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
- E comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion
- S5-1Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Keywords: Bar graphs, Box plots, Comparisons, Distribution Shape, Dot Plots, Five Number Summary, iNZight, Quantitative data, Statistical Investigation Process, Statistical literacy, Stem & leaf
- (Last updated: 20/09/17. Added: 23/02/11)
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