S Y2 Our Lost Teeth – PPDAC cycle
A statistical enquiry aimed at Year 2 膩konga, around lost teeth. This includes follow-up suggestions for future discussions and data analysis over time.聽
This activity explores the following key ideas:聽
- contribute to formulating an investigative question that can be answered with data
- anticipate what the data might show, eg which outcomes might be more frequent than others聽
- discuss how the data-gathering process might affect other people聽
- identify who and what the data measures聽
- collect categorical data for more than one variable聽
- create data visualisations for categorical data, eg pictographs and dot plots
- describe data visualisations for categorical data, noting the frequencies of categories, eg most frequent category, least frequent category聽
- choose statements from class created descriptive statements that best answers the investigative question聽
- match statements made by others with features in simple data visualisations, and agree or disagree with the statements聽
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