First Steps has great overviews which has everything you need to teach. Data squares for parent night - Have a range of sets of data to sort, different ways of sorting venn diagrams and tables, labels, sample hypothesis, etc. Parents & kids sit down and have a go at sorting the data & reflecting on their hypothesis. Have another go with a different hypothesis. Have a sample template for parents to take home to make their own for their families with their own questions. Science is a great way of linking stats - looking at data - not necessarily looking at graphs.
Using a strip to proportionally graph where 20 cube flicks went for each pen. They can then easily be made into a box and whisker graph to compare pens/cubes.
For earlier stages, kids could have numbers up the side with shot glasses up the side to put the cube. Use coloured squares/multi link cubes, beads to show graph, data, then a strip graph, then a pie graph.
0 Comments
Have 3+ kids to draw a table - Make $11 How many different ways can you split this money. What strategies could you use to do this?
Example Question: What would the biggest climbing box that you could make for $100:
This task is rich & will last for a week. Launching into a challenging learning. Scaffolding (but not over). When sharing work - start with the most simple thinking to the more complex. That way everyone has a voice. StatisticsWe teach statistics - not graphs!
Getting kids to interpret and make sense of data - not teaching how to make a pie graph. It is when to use which graph and interpreting the data. Order of teaching Statistics:
Day 1 Draw a graph to show my favourite ... Would we see a progression with this from Year 1-6? If you took bar graphs out, how else could you do it? Ideas Link with Science Investigations. Arbs FIO Give data - draw graph or vice versa. Great statistical literacy. Average/mean, median, mode etc. is also covered during statistical literacy. Link with division. Looking for trends - make comparisons. Statistics has to have a purpose for collecting the data. Why are you collecting data on eye colours? We need a big problem. Investigation Use shot glass & beans to ask the set of questions. Each colour represents another question. Then sort the shot glasses into questions. Put the data together. What does this data tell you? Sequence of teaching graphing - Photograph each stage to display
Ask another group of students the same questions. Compare data. |
Older Posts
October 2018
Categories
All
|