Are you average? Part 2
Students will plan and conduct a statistical investigation to find the average height of students at their school. In this lesson of the Are you average? lesson sequence, students learn about the ethics of collecting data, whether or not random samples represent a population, size of sample and conducting surveys.
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
- General capabilities
- Ethical understanding
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- random sample
- Other terms
- Maths Hub lesson plan
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Are you average? Part 1
Students will plan and conduct a statistical investigation to find the average height of students at their school.
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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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