Some activities to immerse students in ideas about sample, population, sampling variability and how to make a “claim” when comparing two groups

The session is broken into five parts.  The outlines give a reasonably thorough script for you to use.  We would recommend that you split these over five different sessions and allow about ½ an hour each to allow for more time to do and to discuss.

Making the call year 11 overview

Part 1
Outline for Review Year 10 Word file
Review Year 10 pdf file
Review Year 10 Word file
School travel time fathom file
School height fathom file
Girls data cards
Boys data cards
Data cards (girls and boys) Excel file
Travel time graph (box only)
Travel time graph
Height graph (box only)
Height graph
Bus/Walk example
Height example

Part 2
Outline for samples
Samples Word file
Samples pdf file
Samples height Fathom file
Samples height Fathom file

Part 3
Outline for thought experiments
Thought experiments Power Point file
Boxplots A&B
Boxplots memory vs sample size

Part 4
Outline for testing the level 6 guides
The level 6 guides
Check guide sample of 30
Check guide sample of 100
Check guide sample of 1000

Part 5
Outline for practice examples
Practice examples Word file
Practice examples pdf file