Analysis tools

An activity that continues on from ‘Posing summary investigative questions’ in which students follow through the Statistical investigative process over two lessons.

Students inspect their data and clean it if necessary, choose and make appropriate displays for category and measurement data. They then develop descriptive statements for their data, recognising key features of different types of measurement data, for example, body measurements.  This activity is designed for using CensusAtSchool data.

Resources:

• Teacher instructions
• Graph grids
• Year 8 data cards pdf
• Year 8 data cards excel
• Year 8 Tinkerplots file
• Year 9 data cards pdf
• Year 9 data cards excel
• Year 9 fathom file

Level 4

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
    • D communicating findings, using appropriate displays