Statistical Investigations Part 3
These lesson plans were developed in conjunction with the TLRI research project: Building students鈥� inferential reasoning: statistics curriculum levels 5 and 6.
While each series of activities are set up as lesson plans, they may take more or less than a lesson of class time.听 They form a possible sequence of learning and each block works together with the other blocks.听 The lessons are developed using , they could be adapted to any data set or any year of CensusAtSchool.
Lesson 9: Using Fathom
Focus for lesson: 鈥� Introduction to Fathom. 鈥� Using Fathom to draw dot plots and box plots. 鈥� Describing sample data.
Lesson 10: Multiple samples from one population 鈥� to making the call
Focus for lesson: 鈥� Direction of the shift 鈥� Consistency across samples
Lesson 11: More multiple samples
Focus for lesson: 鈥� Reinforcing the message using 鈥渕ovies鈥� Time to School movie and Heights movie.
Lesson 12: Making a call
Focus for lesson: 鈥� Using the ideas behind making a call to explore other questions.
Resources:
- Download all resources in a Zip file听or individually as follows
- Lesson plans
- Boys & Girls heights ftm
- 听Bus walk time ftm
- Junior senior bag weight ftm
- SURF ftm
- Time to School movie
- Heights movie
Also, download Workshop 2 materials zip