THE STRUCTURE OF THE THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECTPROJECT

• The Math Studies teacher guides and The Math Studies teacher guides and supervises the candidates.supervises the candidates.

• Other teachers may be approached for Other teachers may be approached for consultation.consultation.

• Class time should be used for :Class time should be used for :general discussion on skills associated general discussion on skills associated

with project workwith project workthe reading and understanding of the the reading and understanding of the

assessment criteriaassessment criteriaStudent practice in moderating projectsStudent practice in moderating projectsConsultations between teacher and Consultations between teacher and

studentstudent

DATA COLLECTIONDATA COLLECTION

• OBSERVATIONOBSERVATION

• INTERVIEWINTERVIEW

• SURVEYSURVEY

• QUESTIONNAIREQUESTIONNAIRE

• MEASURINGMEASURING

• ACCESSING RECORDED INFORMATIONACCESSING RECORDED INFORMATION

• INTERNET SOURCESINTERNET SOURCES

WHERE TO COLLECT DATAWHERE TO COLLECT DATA

• IN SCHOOLIN SCHOOL

• OUTSIDE SCHOOLOUTSIDE SCHOOL

• LIBRARYLIBRARY

• INTERNETINTERNET

• NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETCNEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETC

• BANKSBANKS

• BUSINESSESBUSINESSES

VALIDITY OF DATAVALIDITY OF DATA

• RANDOM SAMPLE OR BIASED RANDOM SAMPLE OR BIASED SAMPLE?SAMPLE?

• HOW ACCURATE WERE THE HOW ACCURATE WERE THE MEASUREMENTS?MEASUREMENTS?

• HOW ACCURATE WAS THE HOW ACCURATE WAS THE INFORMATION?INFORMATION?

REPRESENTING DATAREPRESENTING DATA

• TABLESTABLES

• GRAPHSGRAPHS

• DIAGRAMSDIAGRAMS

• DRAWINGSDRAWINGS

• PHOTOGRAPHSPHOTOGRAPHS

• COMPUTER PRINTOUTSCOMPUTER PRINTOUTS

• CONSTRUCTIONSCONSTRUCTIONS

ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF DATADATA

• GRAPHSGRAPHS

• STATISTICSSTATISTICS

• ALGEBRAALGEBRA

• GEOMETRYGEOMETRY

• TRIGONOMETRYTRIGONOMETRY

• ARITHMETICARITHMETIC

• LOOKING FOR PATTERNS AND MAKING LOOKING FOR PATTERNS AND MAKING DEDUCTIONSDEDUCTIONS

• The assessment criteria should be The assessment criteria should be referred to frequently.referred to frequently.

• On-going project work should be On-going project work should be evaluatedevaluated

• Internal school deadlines should be Internal school deadlines should be set for different stages of the projectset for different stages of the project

THE FINAL PROJECT THE FINAL PROJECT MUSTMUST BE THE BE THE

INDIVIDUAL AND PERSONALINDIVIDUAL AND PERSONAL WORK WORK OFOF

EACH STUDENTEACH STUDENT