Statistics: Student Profiling

This is a classic reSolve sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.

 

Students critically assess the Census@School 2014 Questionnaire and make decisions on how they would analyse the data given the type of question and response. They describe the life of a single participant using their survey data and use a range of statistical tools to compare their participant to a larger sample. They use technology such as Excel or TinkerPlots to analyse a large dataset.

This sequence is for students who:

• are familiar with a range of statistical tools such as the mean, mode and average, and the interquartile range.
• have some familiarity with technology such as Microsoft Excel or TinkerPlots.

 

Lesson 1: Assessing Data Collection

Students answer and then critically analyse the Census@School 2014 Questionnaire. They are given a single participant’s response sheet to the Questionnaire and use these responses to interpret and describe the participant’s day-to-day life.

Lesson 2: Being Typical

Students compare a single participant’s data to a sample of 550 answer sets and use a range of statistical tools to explore whether their student is “typical”.

 

Last updated May 21 2018.

This is a classic reSolve sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.

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