2. Maths: Statistics
Subject: Maths
Resource type: Lesson
Skills: Aiming High, Creativity
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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. Access our comprehensive resource package, including detailed teacher notes, PowerPoint, student worksheet and answer sheet. Adapt to your classroom’s needs for a dynamic learning experience.
Scenario
A town planner at a local council is to review applications from traders wishing to take part in a popular weekend market. Make suggestions about which pop-up shops would be best suited to the market, and which would perform better as shops in the local shopping centre. To make these recommendations, use of statistical measures from the local market and the shopping centre is required.
Learning Aim
To make informed decisions with statistics.
Skills Builder Links
Aiming high step 4
I work with a positive approach to new challenges.
Creativity step 6
I use creativity in the context of work.
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: The National 5 Business Management | Statistical skills Comparing data sets using statistics. |
| Wales: WJEC GCSE in business specification | Statistics Finding the mean, mode and median. Constructing box plots. |