Year 9 Statistics

Survey Monkey

This next activity is based on Stage 4: Statistics and Probability - Data Collection and Representation

Covering the following Outcomes

 A student:

• communicates and connects mathematical ideas using appropriate terminology, diagrams and symbols (MA4-1WM)

• recognises and explains mathematical relationships using reasoning

(MA4-3WM)

• collects, represents and interprets single sets of data, using appropriate statistical displays (MA4-19SP)

• communicates and connects mathematical ideas using appropriate terminology, diagrams and symbols (MA4-1WM)

 

    The Task

  Students are to create a survey regarding an environmental issue studied in Geography (such as water usage, pollution or deforestation) including details about the people taking the survey, solutions to the problem etc. 

  This survey is to be post on a social media page such as edmondo, facebook page/ twitter/ email it out to all contacts.

After a week the data is to be collected for analyses, once the data has been analysed each group is to create a report based on results, including graphs, data and recommendations.  The report must then be posted back on social media websites to provide feedback.

The completed report will be presented  to their Geography teacher and send to local government representative.

Geogebra Task

Geometry in the Real World

The following activity has been developed to to help students understanding of 2  dimensional shapes and their properties.  Students are asked to apply what they have learnt within the class to a real world scenario, landscaping a garden.  The students have to follow a set requirements that the client has requested.  Once the students have complete their tasks they will have to present their completed plan to the class and a willing local landscaper.  The landscaper can address the class before the presentation and talk about what maths he uses on a daily basis and what tools he uses to create his geometric shapes.

Before the students can undertake this activity they will have to have lessons on GeoGebra on how to construct these shapes (which in turn teaches them about shape properties).   Using GeoGebra the students can learn the geometric shapes properties and verify it using the drag test.

The task

The Perimeter of the Garden

An example plan

The Geogebra plans can easily be created as the same examples given or changed depending on how difficult you would like to make it for you students.

Geogebra

Probability Task

The first of the Tasks that our group presented for EDUC2190 has been created to cover Year 7 N.S4.4 – Solves probability problems involving simple event in the NSW Syllabus.  It particularly focuses on 

• Determine the probability of simple events.
• Solve simple probability problems.
• Recognise complementary events.

Group work has been used so that the students can create a larger amount of sample data to analyse.  This is also the reason why Notebook is used to create the events.  

Notebook is also handy to use because it eliminates students rolling dice and throwing dice all around the classroom.


Probability Task

The link above should send you to a Google document that you will be able to download for easier editing and printing.

 Below is a sample of the Excel Spreadsheet

And a shot of the Notebook screen.  This  is quite easy to create and use through Smartboard Notebook