2. Maths: Statistics

Keystage: KS4

Subject: Maths

Resource type: Lesson

Skills: Aiming High

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Pop-Up: In this activity, students step into the role of a Town Planner at a local council and use data analysis to review applications from traders vying for a spot at the weekend market.

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Town Planner

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Aiming high step 2
I work with care and attention to detail.

Curriculum Table

England: The national curriculum (England)Statistics
Pupils should be taught to construct and interpret diagrams for grouped discrete data and continuous data, i.e. box plots and finding the median, mean and mode.
Scotland: National 5 MathematicsStatistical skills
Comparing data sets using statistics.
Wales: WJEC GCSE Mathematics specificationStatistics
Finding the mean, mode and median. Constructing box plots.

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