reSolve: What's in a name?

This sequence of two lessons examines trends in the names of students in the class, as well as trends in popular names from 2017 and 1957. Students explore data associated with these names and decide whether the mean, median or mode might be a suitable measure of central tendency. They develop their skills with spreadsheets by carrying out statistical calculations. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, discussion points, internet resources and spreadsheets of historical name data. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.

Resource details

Year level

Year 7

Purpose

Teaching resource

Strand

Statistics

Topic

Data representation and interpretation

Audience

Teachers

Format

Downloadable resource

Australian Curriculum code

AC9M7ST02

Numeracy progression

Interpreting and representing data (P5)

Publisher

reSolve Maths by Inquiry

Copyright

© Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Keywords

range