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Statistics surround us..

 They explain, query, state our

- habits, political persuasion,

- human existence,

- natural limits,

- natural world….

- We should all identify with Statistics because

(apologies for the grammar) they are us!

So why … when some students are
asked about what their favourite
Maths area is they rarely say
Stats/Data??

On asking why Statistics weren’t even
mentioned as a favourite Maths area
“Statistics are boring – I like games
better..”
“I’m not sure what they are… Is
that when you do the tally
marks?”
“Oh, we’ve done them already –
you know the class eye colours?”
“oh yeah – didn’t see the point
in that really. It’s not like our
eyes are going to change or
anything.”
“We’re never going to use them
when we’re older..”

Before we go much
further…

Agricultural Age to Industrial Age to
Information Age to Conceptual Age

 “Together they forge an elaborate network of some one
quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) connections that
guides how we talk, eat, breathe and move.” Dan Pink 2005

 And what (I hear you ask) does any

of that have to do with

Statistics and how I teach it?

Australian
Bureau of
Statistics
From cat. no. 4910.0 - Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities, Australia,
Apr 2009 (Data Cube, Table 1)
Dataset S14: Children Participating in Selected Activities, By sex–2003, 2006 and 2009

PARTICIPATION RATE (%)

MALES 2003 2006 2009
Participation in organised cultural activities (a)
Playing a musical instrument 13.2 17.6 18.7
Singing 2.3 2.9 3.1
Dancing 1.6 2.4 3.0
Drama 2.3 2.8 2.8
At least one selected organised cultural activity (b) 16.8 21.7 23.0

Participation in organised sports (excluding dancing) (a)
Swimming 15.7 16.5 17.2
Soccer (outdoor) 22.2 19.6 19.9
Australian Rules football 13.6 13.8 16.0
Netball 0.6 *0.1 *0.3
Tennis 9.5 8.0 9.4
Basketball 8.6 7.4 8.5
Martial arts 6.2 6.1 7.5
Cricket (outdoor) 9.1 10.1 9.7
Gymnastics 1.7 1.6 1.7
Rugby League 5.6 7.9 7.0
Athletics, track and field 3.8 2.6 3.0
Soccer (indoor) 1.9 3.3 4.3
Hockey 2.5 1.7 1.8
Other organised sports 15.5 17.5 15.8
At least one organised sport (b) 68.6 68.8 69.6
Organised sports and/or dancing (c) 69.0 69.4 70.4

http://www.census.gov/schools/census_
for_kids/census_for_kids.html?

Who/What is the average?

Planning Lesson – Census for kids

Scootle data sets

http://data.gov.au/data/

Rugby World
Cup App

Infographics – stats and data
for right brainers

Creating infographics with kids
 Wordle/Tagxedo
 Excel/Numbers/Google Docs
 Many Eyes
 Hohli: Online Chart Builders
 StatPlanet Map Builder
 Publisher/Glogster/Photoshop/picnik etc..
 Cartooning sites
 Visualize (iPad app)

Stephen Covey’s Habits of Highly Effective People – The Leader in Me
Program

Putting first
Beginning
things first
with the
– raw data
end in mind
with kids

Seek first to
understand
Synergise
then to be
understood

Putting first things first –
Generating raw data with kids

Flisti - A simple poll creator that allows users to
share w/ popular social networks.

Obsurvey - A great site w/ a wiki-style
interface that allows users to create surveys w/ different
styles of questions (multiple choice, true/false, etc.).

Survey Monkey - One of the
best online sites for creating surveys. The free version offers
10 questions per survey, up to a 100 responses, and real-time
results.

Vorbeo - A very easy to use site that lets users embed a poll
directly into their blog/website.

Ask 500 – my personal favourite because it brings up the
map of where people are voting from. We can have fabulous
conversations about population pools and the kids get a kick when their
question is ‘hosted’.

Poll Everywhere – can be used with staff, kids
on computers (or phones if you have a liberal school).

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