Mathematics

//Welcome to the Mathematics Resource page. Here you will find ideas and links to activities to support your unit of study.// __ **//﻿﻿//** **//﻿STATISTICS//** __ Statistics lends itself well to this particular unit of study and there are many different aspects of Fast Food that children can explore. It's essential that children can first get a broad picture of their own eating habits before exploring the eating habits of others. **Step 1:** Conduct an interv﻿iew of the children in your class to gauge their current eating habits and trends in relation to Fast Food. Below is a sample interview that you could conduct. media type="custom" key="9350792" align="center"

A great starting point for your class. Children can then choose what aspects of fast food they want to look at and create questions for an identified target audience. Utilise Survey Monkey for children to create their surveys. Children are able to send their survey to a variety of different people within a range of settings, via email. Suggest likely audiences, such as children in other classrooms, parents, teachers and even children in another country. There are a range of sites that encourage interschool relationships for learning.

**Step 2:**  Once children have conducted their interviews the next step is for them to display their statistical data. Survey Monkey provides you with the ability to generate sample graphs for your study, however programs such as Excel will also enable your children to display their information, or for younger children it is possible to create graphs using programmes such as PrintShop. **Step 3:**  What does the data tell you? After constructing their graphs get children to firstly make a statement about their own data focusing on extreme values. What statements can you make about Fast Food and your target group? Were you surprised by what the data showed? Are there any factors that you think may have given you the results you received? **Step 4:** Compare your data. Get the students to check how their data stacks up against the other people in the classroom. Questions that may help with generating comparison data are; Can you see any similarities between your group and another in the classroom? Are there any responses that don't receive similar results? Why is that do you think?