Are you average? Part 1
Students will plan and conduct a statistical investigation to find the average height of students at their school. Students analyse and report on the distribution of their data for the ‘whole’ school, drawing conclusions with respect to different sampling techniques and whether methods chosen were fair and considered.
This lesson is one of a series of lessons that can be used to assist students to plan and conduct a statistical investigation.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- distributive sampling
- Other terms
- datasets Maths Hub lesson plan
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Are you average? Part 2
Students learn about the ethics of collecting data, whether or not random samples represent a population, size of sample and conducting surveys.
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Are you average? Part 3
Students will plan and conduct a statistical investigation to find the average height of students at their school. Students analyse and report on the distribution of their data for the ‘whole’ school, drawing conclusions with respect to different sampling techniques and whether methods chosen were fair and considered.
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