Every high school graduate should be able to use sound statistical reasoning to intelligently cope with the requirements of citizenship, employment, and family and to be prepared for a healthy, happy and productive life.http://www.amstat.org/education/gaise/GAISEPreK-12_Full.pdf

Knowledge and skills in statistics and probability

• Look at the NZC objectives for Levels 3 – 6.

• What do you notice?

Key Ideas www.nzmaths.co.nz

• What do you notice?

• What are the progressions from Level 3 – Level 6?

Keep the big picture in mind all the time

• What are the key themes across the Achievement Objectives Levels 3 – 6?

Summarise both the AO’s and the Key Ideas from Levels 3 - 6

• I wonder if we can put together a simple progression for learning from Levels 3 – 6?• I wonder if the three substrands

can be integrated in programmes?

Pedagogy: teaching not telling

• How can students use concrete materials to build statistical thinking eg to understand the nature of mean and median?• How can a 2-way bridge be built

between the concrete and the abstract?

Writing in statistics

Students ask:• What can I see in the graph?• What do the numbers allow me to

say about what I can see?• What does this mean in context?

Resources are unlikely to be found in a text book

• www.censusatschool.org.nz• www.nzmaths.co.nz• Gaise (Google search)• and …