These resources were presented at the Statistics Teachers’ Day 2009, held at Tāmaki Campus, The University of Auckland.

Workshop material is also available. The workshops are based on the material in the teaching unit below. See also previous presentations on informal inference.

Level 5 Statistical Investigations Lesson Plans

The lesson plans in this teaching unit were developed in conjunction with the TLRI research project: Building students’ inferential reasoning: statistics curriculum levels 5 and 6.

While each series of activities are set up as lesson plans, they may take more or less than a lesson of class time. They form a possible sequence of learning and each block works together with the other blocks. The lessons are developed using CensusAtSchool (2009) data, they could be adapted to any data set or any year of CensusAtSchool.

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Block 1: Introduction to the PPDAC cycle, posing investigative questions and writing descriptions for summary and comparison investigative questions.

Block 2: Introduction to sampling, drawing dot plots and box plots, writing descriptions from dot plots and box plots.

Block 3: Moving from box plots to making the call and writing conclusions.