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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.

My foot length: Answers

My foot length: Student worksheet

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.

Pie graphs: Answers

Pie graphs: Student worksheet

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.

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