Guess the Olympian
A great new resouce that is suitable for all levels, the activity is designed to help learners understand the importance of:
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stating clearly the purpose of an investigation;
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planning how to collect data;
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designing clear, unbiased questions, open and closed;
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recognising anomalies and deciding whether these are outliers or errors;
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tabulating results systematically;
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taking random samples;
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plotting the appropriate graph or chart;
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reporting accurately on their findings.
All the documents required are below, in both MS Word and PDF format. You can also access the data used for the activity in the MS Excel spreadsheets. (Cleaning data, interpreting charts and graphs, bar charts and problem solving cycle for KS3.)
Downloads:
Exercise
Data
Teacher Notes
