Freya Seemann's List: Statistics and Probability

This would be a fun exercise for stage three and four students. By the students looking for and collecting they would begin to understand the process to creating graphs more deeply. They would start the know the difference between data and information, data being a collection of unorganised raw facts and information is raw data organised into meaningful facts showed through many different graphs (This was discussed in Lecture three of Learning Technologies EDU10003). During this exercise the students would learn how to draw up different graphs using their collected data. They would also visually see that even though they are using the same data to make the graphs, different graphs will look vastly different. For Year Six and above you could even go into finding the mean, medium, range, and mode using these graphs. They could then do their own data collecting on things they enjoy, for example: How fast can I run 100 m. Then they would repeat the experiment by running 100m everyday for the rest of the week and record the times they ran. Once they have their data they would use it to make the different kinds of graphs they had explored in earlier lessons. During these lessons the students will have learnt data collecting (outcome DS2.1), data analysis (outcome DS3.1and DS4.1), the shape of data and processing data (Van de Walle, et al., 2010, pp. 436-455, Board of Studies, 2002, p. 21). Reading S4 discusses the need to create opportunities to develop and deepen the students understanding of probability and statistics (Joyner & Reys, 2002). To do this it is important to have a base understanding but also teach Data and Probability using ideas the students are interested in and this lesson achieves this.

Human Bar charts are an interesting concept for introducing this type of chart. it is a fun way to start a lesson.

olympic Games would be fun and exciting. it is physical maths and it is out doors away from the boring classroom. I also like the idea of including video cameras.

Time travel is also a very physical lesson which is good for the Kinaesthetic learners in the class. This lesson would be a great way to introduce Graphing.

I really like the idea of the students working outside and observing nature. You could even have the lesson fully outside instead of going back into the classroom do draw up the results.

This is a good way to do a graph lesson as it is very physical and fun. It also moves the children away from the usual bar graph, line graph and histogram. People graphs are also a great way of showing data and data relations. A similar idea was presented in "Teachers TV: Primary Maths - Data Handling" (TES, 2012)

Maths Online also follows the Maths Syllabus and learning areas. This is said in the "Demo", which I have highlighted.

Very, very helpful tool for students and teachers. Teachers are able to set up classes and homework for their students to do, and/or the students are able to work at their own pace going through each exercise with very simple but detailed instructions.