Palmerston+North+2009

Session One: Workshop focusing on teaching statistics to Year 9 and 10 students Venue: Palmerston North Girls High School Time: 10.00 - 11.45 am This workshop will be focused on CensusAtSchool, and be relevant to levels 4-6 of the curriculum. - using the equipment - identifying the measurement - eliminating variability Cross-curricula opportunities || [] questions for 2009 [|2009questionsc@s.doc] Making measures.doc can be found at: [] Teacher data cards [|teacherdatacards.doc] || Working in pairs take 1-2 variables. Making measures stations cards [|making-measures-stations.doc] Year 10 posing cards [|year10posing.xls] Questions 1-6 on OHT [|OHTunpackvariables.doc] || Sort the questions into the different categories: Summary; Comparison; Relationship Think about which questions will be easy to answer, which ones hard to answer, what are key attributes of good investigative questions with a particular focus on summary questions (L4). || Possible lesson plan [|Lesson 2.doc] (Posing investigative questions for a given group, focus on summary) Ideas on good summary investigative questions (L4) [|goodsumIQL4.doc] || Sorting and cleaning Take one variable that you are interested in, sort the data. Think about realistic outcomes for the variable. What will you do with data that isn't realistic? || Year 10 posing cards [|year10posing.xls] Fathom Demo at [|Key Curriculum Press] || Take one summary investigative question and use the data cards to make a display to help to answer the question. Write I notice statements about your display looking at key features of your display. || Year 10 posing cards [|year10posing.xls] || Take one comparison question (numerical data) and use the given data to make a dot plot to help answer your question. Make I notice statements about your display, looking at key features and using the language of comparison. || Tables of data [|tablesdatayr10.xls] Sheets for making dot plots [|dotplotgrids.doc] Analysis ideas [|analysisideas.doc] Pfannkuch et al [|A teacher’s guide to informal comparative reasoning] or on [|CensusAtSchool]site. ||
 * Timing || Details || Resources ||
 * 15-20mins || Making the measures
 * 15-20mins || Familiarisation with data on cards
 * 1) What was the survey question asked to collect the data?
 * 2) Who was surveyed? By whom? When?
 * 3) How was the variable measured?
 * 4) What are the units, if any, for the variable?
 * 5) What are the possible outcomes for the variable?
 * 6) What type of data is it? Categorical or numerical? || 2009 questionnaire [|2009questionsc@s.doc]
 * 15-20mins || Posing investigative questions onto strips of paper - try for at least four per person
 * 5-10mins || Working with data
 * 10-15mins || Using data cards to make displays
 * 15-20mins || Using dot plots

Session Two: Workshop focusing on teaching statistics to Year 11 students Venue: Palmerston North Girls High School Time: 12.20 -2.00 pm This workshop will focus on samples and populations: a beginning look at using samples to make informal inferences about populations. Familiarisation with the data set. Work out the variables on the data cards. Use the Kiwi Survival guide information to do this. || [] || Checking questions.
 * || Timing || Details || Resources ||
 * 15-20mins || Kiwi data cards
 * 10-15mins || Posing comparison investigative questions.
 * can be answered with the data
 * is about the whole group
 * population of interest is clear
 * variable(s) of interest is clear
 * intent (summary, comparison, relationship) is clear
 * someone is interested in the answer

Planning to collect the data. How will we answer our question? How many will we sample?

Data - collect and sort the data ||  ||
 * 15-20mins || Draw dot plots, draw box plots

Write I notice statements about the sample These should be descriptive statements and may include things such as commenting on shape, spread, middle 50%, summary statistics, other interesting or unusual features.

compare and contrast with other groups

Write statements about what you think is happening back in the population ||  ||
 * 15-20mins || Repeat for at least one more question ||  ||
 * 15-20mins || Pulling ideas together. ||  ||

Session Three: Bevan Werry presentation on Statistics Education, early 21st Century New Zealand Venue: Awanui 1.16-1.19 Time: 4.30 - 6.30 pm In this presentation, Pip will explore the five aspects of the PPDAC cycle and use this to give an overview of some of the experiences that our students can have to develop their statistical thinking and reasoning. [|Bevan Werry Presentation] Paper as mentioned in presentation [|TSG14piparnold.pdf] Various data cards: [|2007datacards.xls]; [|KarekareCollegedatacards.xls]; [|year9data2005.xls]; [|year10posing.xls]; [|year9posing.xls]