Learning Intention: Students will understand that data can be displayed in various ways and they will be able to interpret different types of graphs, including bar graphs, pie charts, stem-and-leaf plots and scatter plots.
Success Criteria: Students will complete the following activites and be able to explain what the graphs tell us about the data collected.
The above quote, popularised by Mark Twain, refers to the ways that politicians can sometimes “manipulate the data” to suppport decision-making. The same data can often be used to support or disprove a theory, depending on the emphasis. Over the next couple of weeks we will use the data from the CensusAtSchool questionnaire to learn more about summary statistics and graphing. Some of the activities we will do are:
- Bar Charts of Favourite Music
- The Birth Month Paradox
- Scatterplots: making predictions for height vs. arm span
- Stem and Leaf Plot of travel time
You can use the random data sampler to display the data relevant to each question.