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Using scatter plots to identify outliers in two variable data.

Answers to worksheet based on newspaper articles on average electricity bills and household expenses across Australia.

Worksheet based on newspaper articles on average electricity bills and household expenses across Australia.

Presents a solution to the reaction time activity.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, M0009021, Licensed under a Creative-Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5).

A 5-level rubric for assessing this reaction time activity.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, M0009021, Licensed under a Creative-Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5).

Presents a task related to reaction time based on data from the ABS CensusAtSchool site.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, M0009021, Licensed under a Creative-Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5).

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?

A rubric is provided for the average task, plus solutions for an extension to the main task.
Source: © Jane Watson.

Worksheet with questions on a short news article about guns in US schools.

Worksheet for classroom use based on data for salt content of 30 food products.

The teacher notes provide a lesson structure for dealing with outliers using data for salt content of food products.

A worksheet on types of bias, accuracy and random sampling.

This document contains the transcription of the video which demonstrates how to create box plots on a graphics calculator.

Spreadsheet to carry out simulations of coin tosses 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000 times.
Source: Spreadsheet developed by Helen Chick.

A six-level hierarchical rubric is provided with examples, for the complete protocol.
Source: © Jane Watson.

The complete protocol for comparing groups, which includes questions and 4 graphs.
Source: © Jane Watson.

Data that can be used with the Contrasting Medians and Means: Student Worksheet on dates on Australian 10-cent coins and student arm spans.

Worksheet where students consider data on dates on Australian 10-cent coins and their own arm spans.

Lesson plan for comparing properties of the median and mean for two different data sets: Australian 10c coins and measured arm spans.

Six tasks to assess students' prior or current understanding of covariation.
Source: © Noleine Fitzallen.

Teacher notes on the analysis of student responses to height differences.

A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 4 parts of the 'town' graphs task with examples.
Source: © Jane Watson.

This activity helps students develop an understanding of graphical representations.
Source: © Jane Watson.

A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 4 parts of the travel to school task with examples.
Source: © Jane Watson.

Source: © Jane Watson.

This document contains the transcription of the video about the effect of increasing sample size.

Provides detailed descriptions about box plots of rainfall data from capital cities.

Answers linking three plots and their strength of association for various body measurements.

Answers to questions about a media graph that is misleading because of area.

This document contains the transcription of the video explaining the student activity Mystery Bag.

This worksheet has the instructions for the student activity Mystery Bag as well as tally cards and graph templates.

The notes contain instructions for the student activity Mystery Bag, lists of the contents of the mystery bags and index cards for students. 

This document contains the transcription of the video which explains the student activity Paperclip Investigation.

A worksheet on capture-recapture methods.

An example of student project work from the paperclip investigation.

Answers to questions about a pie graph where the segments add to more than 100%.

This student worksheet poses a number of questions about a pie graph appearing in the media.

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.

Teaching notes relating to the classroom use of the digital learning object.

Transcript of the video Randomisation in Coin Tosses which shows that the more tosses of a coin, the closer the expectation is realised.

Slides of variation in small numbers of coin tosses and the approach to theoretical values with larger numbers of trials.

This document contains the transcription of the video Scatter Plots which explains how to use a spreadsheet to produce scatter plots.

A hierarchical rubric is provided for the 6 parts of the school survey task with examples.
Source: © Jane Watson.

This student worksheet has a series of questions about selecting a suitable sample for a survey.
Source: © Jane Watson.

A four-level rubric to assess investigations with respect to knowledge, methods, purposes and forms of communication.
Source: © Natalie Brown.

A slide presentation about developing plans for using media articles in the classroom.

Pre-test on survey methods for the start of a statistics unit.

Data on winners of the Melbourne Cup are used to demonstrate the relationship between types of data and their associated graphs.