Statistics

Statistics

LI: To create and gather information about Year 6 students using a survey.

Investigating Predictions and Issues

The steps you should take to carry out a statistical investigations are:

1. Decide on the purpose of your investigation. What would you like to find out? Who are you going to investigate? What do you predict will happen? When are you doing your investigation? Why do you want to know this? How are you going to collect or display the data? 2. Decide what data needs to be collected and whether you will collect this as a list, on a tally chart, on a stem and leaf graph, as a dot plot or in some other way. 3. Collect the data. 4. Organise the data onto graphs 5. Interpret the data by writing some conclusion. 6. Report on your investigation. In your report include the purpose of the investigation, the organised data and your conclusion.

 || Histogram  || Dot plot
 * Bar graph

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 * Pictogram

|| <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Stem and Leaf

|| <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px;">Pie graph <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 22.4px;"> ||