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FAQ

  • When asking a question like “What is the probability that our soccer team scores between 3 and 7 goals per game?”, does ‘between’ mean include or exclude the endpoints 3 and 7?
  • Why isn't "interpretation of the slope in context" in the 3.9 standard?
  • Kiwi Kapers, I wonder what is the median weight of kiwis? How should I encourage my students to write conclusions when making an inference?
  • Can we use iNZight to work out residuals and draw residual plots?
  • Can you please clarify the definition of a sampling error as students often get confused between sampling error and non-sampling error?
  • How do I correctly pose a comparison investigative question for Kiwi Kapers 3 and state my conclusions when making an inference about the population?
  • Why have there been so many changes to the Statistics Curriculum, especially with regards to the Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals?
  • What is the name of the error bounds for the sample median?
  • What possible relevance can statements about the sample be in helping us draw a conclusion about the population?
  • Can we make the assumption that C@S data is a population?
  • Why can't you use confidence intervals to analyse and make inferences from your experiment in AS 3.11?

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Latest resources

  • 1 March 2021
    Teaching time series in our covid-affected era
  • 14 January 2021
    Shoe Graph
  • 18 December 2020
    Teaching Variation

Popular resources

  • Statistical Investigation
  • Data sets for bivariate investigations
  • Data Detective Poster
  • Describing the trend in a time series
  • ClassCalc – web-based graphics calculator

Useful statistics links

Curriculum

  • NZMaths Key Mathematical Ideas
  • NZMaths Statistics Information
  • NZMaths Statistics for Levels 1-8
  • TKI
  • Glossary of Statistics on TKI
  • National Standards
  • NCEA

Organisations

  • NZAMT
  • AMA
  • BOPMA
  • CMA
  • WMA

Blogs

  • Stats Chat
  • Learn & Teach Statistics
  • Significance Magazine
  • World of Statistics

Tools

  • iNZight
  • VIT: Visual Inferential Tools
  • NZGrapher
  • Survey Monkey

CensusAtSchool New Zealand is supported by:

  • Statistics New Zealand
  • Ministry of Education
  • The University of Auckland, Department of Statistics