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Statistics in Action Introduction

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Statistics in Action Introduction

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📊 Part 1: Understanding Statistics

1. What are statistics?

Numbers we use in maths problems

Information we collect to help us understand things

Data about sports only

Pictures and graphs

2. Which of these are examples of statistics? (Tick all that apply)

Weather temperature: 18°C today

Your favourite colour is blue

25 students in our class prefer pizza over burgers

The rugby team scored 3 tries

My birthday is in December

3. Why do we collect statistics?

To make our work harder

To help us make decisions and understand groups

Because teachers tell us to

To fill in time

📝 Part 2: Statistics Vocabulary

4. Match the vocabulary word to its meaning by writing the correct letter:

Data: _________

Variable: _________

Group of interest: _________

Data visualisation: _________

a) The people or things we want to learn about
b) Information we collect
c) Something that can change or be different
d) A way to show data using pictures, charts or graphs

5. Give an example of statistics from your everyday life:
6. If we wanted to find out "What is the most popular sport in our school?", what would our group of interest be?

🎯 Part 3: Creating Our Own Statistics

7. Our class collected data about favourite fruits. Here are the results:

Apples: 8 students | Bananas: 5 students | Oranges: 3 students | Grapes: 6 students

a) Which fruit was most popular? _________________

b) How many students answered the question in total? _______

c) Which fruit was least popular? _________________

8. Think of an investigative question you could ask your classmates to collect data. Write your question here:
9. Extension Challenge: Find one statistic from a newspaper, website, or TV that interests you. Write it down and explain why it's useful:

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