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Listed under:  Mathematics  >  Statistics and probability  >  Data analysis  >  Measures of spread  >  Range (Statistics)
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Can you guess the weight of Uluru?

  • TLF-IDM025420

What is the "wisdom of a crowd"? Mathematician Lily Serna investigates a mathematical phenomenon that suggests that if you have a large enough crowd, with a broad variety of people making estimates, then the mean (average) answer of the crowd will be accurate! Find out if a crowd can guess the weight of Uluru from the ground ...

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Graphing

  • TLF-IDM019735

Graphs can be used to illustrate the relationship between two variables. Watch this fun animation from NASA to learn the basics of graphing.

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About Average

  • TLF-IDM020728

This resource is a web page containing a set of questions about mean, median and mode. Rather than work out the mean, median and mode from a data set, these questions require students to apply their understanding and reasoning to work out the answer. A 'Solution' is also available to support the task. This resource is an ...

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The Lives of Presidents

  • TLF-IDM020731

This resource is a web page containing an investigative task that involves the analysis of data. Data about Presidents of the United States of America in the form of a spreadsheet is provided. Create your own questions for inquiry the sort the spreadsheet by relevant criteria. A 'Getting started' and 'Solutions' page ...

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Olympic Triathlon

  • TLF-IDM020730

This resource is a web page containing an investigative task that involves the analysis of data. Data from Olympic Triathlon in the form of a spreadsheet is provided. Sort the results in various ways, work out averages and measures of spread, or plot some graphs to test correlations between times for individual events ...

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Mean, median and mode

  • TLF-IDM012414

This resource is a video demonstration, with audio commentary, about calculating the mean, median and mode of a data set. The meaning of each of the terms - mean, median and mode - is explained and the difference between them is clarified. The resource explains the process and demonstrates a handwritten method for calculating ...

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Life expectancy PowerPoint

  • TLF-IDM012539

This teacher resource is a PowerPoint presentation designed to address common student misunderstandings about life expectancy. It emphasises that life expectancy is an average, that most people live for much longer or shorter than their life expectancy and that, when life expectancy is low, it is mostly because of a very ...

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Interactive

Syllabus bites – dot plots and two-way tables

  • TLF-IDM016356

A webpage with information and useful links related to dot plots and two-way tables

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Interactive

Plop it!

  • TLF-IDM012006

This is an interactive resource about statistics that allows students to investigate the effect of different datasets on the mean, median and mode. The student can enter data by selecting the central graph section of the screen to add, remove or move blocks, or by typing into the text area of the screen. The three different ...

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Data in Gapminder world

  • TLF-IDM012538

This resource is a dataset providing data for a number of indicators of development over time for more than 200 countries. The indicators fall into the following categories: population, health, economy, environment, work, infrastructure, energy and education, with over 500 sets of data in total. Each set of data can be ...

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Leisure survey

  • TLF-IDL3154

Explore how kids use their leisure time. Choose questions to ask in a survey. For example, look at the percentages of kids that play tennis, basketball or netball. Examine a table of results. Sort the data and use it to answer questions. Display the results using a suitable type of graph such as a pie chart, bar graph or ...

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Give it your best shot

  • TLF-IDA003531

Students calculate the mean, median and mode for sets of data and select the appropriate measure of centre.

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The humanoid project

  • TLF-IDA003530

Students explore a large data set.

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Sleepy statistics: Analysis: Part 2

  • TLF-IDA004604

In this second of two lessons, students represent their acquired sleep data using a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot and draw conclusions based on statistical analysis.

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Sleepy statistics: Part 1

  • TLF-IDA004605

Students conduct a sleep audit over two weeks to test hypotheses regarding improving sleep quality.

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