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Hooked on Statistics Years 6-8: Interpreting & presenting data

Learn how to interpret and present data

Develop key skills. Designed to complement your classroom numeracy programme, the books in this series provide varied, stimulating activities that develop students' skills in measurement, statistics and geometry. They open up numerous opportunities to involve and extend students, enticing them into applying mental strategies to solve real world problems. They include explanations and answers for each activity and are ideal for group or independent use.

Ages: 10-12 | Pages: 56 | Code: 5586 | ISBN: 9781927143247
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Jo Issa

Jo Issa is an experienced teacher who has taught in both the UK and New Zealand. She is passionate about making numeracy fun and providing students with the tools they need to solve number problems independently. When she’s not number crunching, Jo pursues another passion: writing. She has a diploma in publishing from Whitireia Community Polytechnic in Porirua, New Zealand and is currently working towards a diploma in creative writing.

Contents

Introduction4
How to use this book
Collecting resources
Curriculum links
Introducing statistics6
What is statistics?
Planning a statistical investigation
Questioning and data gathering8
Understand the purpose of questioning
Generate questions
Understand different types of questions
Categorise questions
Gain an overview of planning investigations and gathering data
Use data collection sheets to record data
Sort data
Presenting data22
Use bar and column charts to present data
Use a side-by-side column chart to present data
Use a histogram to present data
Use a line graph to present data
Use a pictogram to present data
Use a pie chart to present data
Use a scatter diagram to present data
Interpreting data37
Find the mean, mode and median of data
Interpret pie charts
Interpret bar charts
Interpret tables and spreadsheets
Evaluate data for bias
Ideas for statistical investigations45
Probability48
Rank events on a probability scale
Use certain, equal chance or impossible to describe outcomes
Use a diagram or table to record possible outcomes
Glossary52
Answers53