Scatter it
How does height of students change with age? What is the height of ten year old? What is the height of a fourteen year old? Students are presented with a table of data from 12 students consisting of age (yrs) and height (cm).
This activity explores the following key ideas:
- Reading bivariate data from a table
- Plotting co-ordinates on a pre-generated plot area
- Commenting on the relationship between the variables
- Understanding the idea of variables
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Achievement Objectives
- Level 4
- S4-1Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- B gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends
- S4-1Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Level 6
- S6-1Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- C identifying and communicating features in context (trends, relationships between variables, and differences within and between distributions), using multiple displays
- S6-1Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Keywords: Bivariate, Relationship, Scatterplots, Statistical Investigation Process
- (Last updated: 20/09/17. Added: 14/02/11)
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