The Statistical Enquiry Cycle
I can understand the stages of the Statistical Enquiry Cycle.
The Statistical Enquiry Cycle
I can understand the stages of the Statistical Enquiry Cycle.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Planning involves defining a question to investigate and what data to collect.
- Collecting involves designing collection methods.
- Processing and presenting involves calculating statistical measures and graphical representations.
- Interpreting involves reaching conclusions and making inferences.
- Communicating and evaluating involves identifying weaknesses and improvements.
Keywords
Statistical Enquiry Cycle - The Statistical Enquiry Cycle is a cycle used to carry out a statistical investigation. There are five stages. This is an ongoing process as evaluation may lead to new/refined questioning.
Common misconception
Pupils may reach false conclusions by not following the Statistical Enquiry Cycle and skipping stages.
Ask pupils to consider trying to draw conclusions from a large data set of raw values, where no processing or representation has taken place, to highlight the need for that stage in particular.
To help you plan your year 10 maths lesson on: The Statistical Enquiry Cycle, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 maths lesson on: The Statistical Enquiry Cycle, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
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Lesson video
Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
Deciding to research the safety of driverless cars
Testing a driverless car on a track
Using a spreadsheet to analyse the data
Looking at results and deciding what they show
Concluding a new driverless car is safe
