An outstanding cricketer: Student worksheet
Using scatter plots to identify outliers in two variable data.
Analysing media reports: Possible answers
Answers to worksheet based on newspaper articles on average electricity bills and household expenses across Australia.
Analysing media reports: Student worksheet
Worksheet based on newspaper articles on average electricity bills and household expenses across Australia.
Are males better drivers? Answers
Presents a solution to the reaction time activity.Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, , Licensed under a (CC BY 2.5).
Are males better drivers? Rubric
A 5-level rubric for assessing this reaction time activity.Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, , Licensed under a (CC BY 2.5).
Are males better drivers? Student worksheet
Presents a task related to reaction time based on data from the ABS CensusAtSchool site.Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, , Licensed under a (CC BY 2.5).
Armspan video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video which explains the use of armspan measures in the activity How Long is a Piece of String?
Average task: Possible answers
A rubric is provided for the average task, plus solutions for an extension to the main task.Source: © Jane Watson.
Belief in the media: Student worksheet
Worksheet with questions on a short news article about guns in US schools.
Beware of outliers: Student worksheet
Worksheet for classroom use based on data for salt content of 30 food products.
Beware of outliers: Teacher notes
The teacher notes provide a lesson structure for dealing with outliers using data for salt content of food products.
Biased data: Student worksheet
A worksheet on types of bias, accuracy and random sampling.
Boxplots on a Calculator video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video which demonstrates how to create box plots on a graphics calculator.
Coin tossing activity
Spreadsheet to carry out simulations of coin tosses 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000 times.Source: Spreadsheet developed by Helen Chick.
Comparing groups: Rubric
A six-level hierarchical rubric is provided with examples, for the complete protocol.Source: © Jane Watson.
Comparing groups: Student worksheet
The complete protocol for comparing groups, which includes questions and 4 graphs.Source: © Jane Watson.
Contrasting medians and means: Data
Data that can be used with the on dates on Australian 10-cent coins and student arm spans.
Contrasting medians and means: Student worksheet
Worksheet where students consider data on dates on Australian 10-cent coins and their own arm spans.
Contrasting medians and means: Teacher notes
Lesson plan for comparing properties of the median and mean for two different data sets: Australian 10c coins and measured arm spans.
Covariation: Assessment
Six tasks to assess students' prior or current understanding of covariation.Source: © Noleine Fitzallen.
Examples of misjudgements: Teacher notes
Teacher notes on the analysis of student responses to height differences.
Graph reading and scale: Rubric
A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 4 parts of the 'town' graphs task with examples.Source: © Jane Watson.
Graph reading and scale: Student worksheet
This activity helps students develop an understanding of graphical representations.Source: © Jane Watson.
How students travel to school: Rubric
A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 4 parts of the travel to school task with examples.Source: © Jane Watson.
How students travel to school: Student worksheet
Source: © Jane Watson.
Increasing Sample Size video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video about the effect of increasing sample size.
Informal inference with box plots: Teacher notes
Provides detailed descriptions about box plots of rainfall data from capital cities.
Judging associations: Answers
Answers linking three plots and their strength of association for various body measurements.
Misleading area graphs: Answers
Answers to questions about a media graph that is misleading because of area.
Mystery Bag video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video explaining the student activity Mystery Bag.
Mystery bag: Student worksheet
This worksheet has the instructions for the student activity Mystery Bag as well as tally cards and graph templates.
Mystery bag: Teacher notes
The notes contain instructions for the student activity Mystery Bag, lists of the contents of the mystery bags and index cards for students.
Paperclip investigation video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video which explains the student activity Paperclip Investigation.
Paperclip investigation: Student worksheet
A worksheet on capture-recapture methods.
Paperclip investigation: Work sample
An example of student project work from the paperclip investigation.
Pie graph activity: Answers
Answers to questions about a pie graph where the segments add to more than 100%.
Pie graph activity: Student worksheet
This student worksheet poses a number of questions about a pie graph appearing in the media.
Predicting AFL winners
Teacher notes and student worksheet of interest to those who follow Australian Rules football.Carter, Pauline 2011, 'Predicting AFL Winners', Middle Years Learning Tasks for the Australian Curriculum 2011, © Mathematical Association of South Australia.
Random or not: Teacher notes
Teaching notes relating to the classroom use of the digital learning object.
Randomisation in Coin Tosses video transcript
Transcript of the video Randomisation in Coin Tosses which shows that the more tosses of a coin, the closer the expectation is realised.
Randomisation of coin tosses slide presentation
Slides of variation in small numbers of coin tosses and the approach to theoretical values with larger numbers of trials.
Scatter Plots video transcript
This document contains the transcription of the video Scatter Plots which explains how to use a spreadsheet to produce scatter plots.
School survey task: Rubric
A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 6 parts of the school survey task with examples.Source: © Jane Watson.
School survey task: Student worksheet
This student worksheet has a series of questions about selecting a suitable sample for a survey.Source: © Jane Watson.
Statistical investigations: Rubric
A four-level rubric to assess investigations with respect to knowledge, methods, purposes and forms of communication.Source: © Natalie Brown.
Statistical literacy: Using the media
A slide presentation about developing plans for using media articles in the classroom.
Survey methods: Questionnaire
Pre-test on survey methods for the start of a statistics unit.
The Melbourne Cup: Student worksheet
Data on winners of the Melbourne Cup are used to demonstrate the relationship between types of data and their associated graphs.