Student Book One hour lessons Learning objectives Subject content references Topic links references Use discrete or continuous data 1 Measures of central tendency L3 interpret measure of central Links back to GCSE 12.1 – Use measures of central tendency: tendency and variation DS 12.1 Students review of data, the median, mean, median, mode the mode and the mean. Students consider which is the best measure of central tendency to use and why. They use to Data set activity 12.1 calculate the median and mean and comment critically on findings. 2 Measures of central tendency and Use discrete, continuous, grouped L3 interpret measure of central back to GCSE 12.1 – or ungrouped data tendency and variation Ex 12.1A spread Use measures of variation: range Students review measures of spread; the and interpercentile ranges range and interquartile range They use frequency table to calculate measure of central tendency and spread and estimate the mean from frequency tables. Use measure of variation: variance 3 Variance and standard deviation L3 interpret measures of This is covered further in 12.2 – and standard deviation variation, extending to standard Book 2, Chapter 13 Ex 12.2A Students are introduced to variance and Use the statistic deviation Statistical distributions standard deviation and the fact that these Use standard deviation L3 be able to calculate standard – measures use all the data items. Students deviation, including from go onto calculating variance and standard summary statistics L4 select or critique data deviation using frequency tables. – presentation techniques in the context of a statistical problem 4 Data cleaning Use measure of variation: variance L4 select or critique data 12.2 – and standard deviation presentation techniques in the DS 12.2 Recap calculating variance and standard Use the statistic context of a statistical problem deviation from frequency tables and then Use standard deviation introduce data cleaning as involving the identification and removal of any invalid
One hour lessons Learning objectives Subject content references Topic links Student Book references 1 Measures of central tendency Students review of data, the median, the mode and the mean. Students consider which is the best measure of central tendency to use and why. They use Data set activity 12.1 to calculate the median and mean and comment critically on findings. Use discrete or continuous data Use measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode L3 – interpret measure of central tendency and variation Links back to GCSE 12.1 DS 12.1 2 Measures of central tendency and spread Students review measures of spread; the range and interquartile range They use frequency table to calculate measure of central tendency and spread and estimate the mean from frequency tables. Use discrete, continuous, grouped or ungrouped data Use measures of variation: range and interpercentile ranges L3 – interpret measure of central tendency and variation back to GCSE 12.1 Ex 12.1A 3 Variance and standard deviation Students are introduced to variance and standard deviation and the fact that these measures use all the data items. Students go onto calculating variance and standard deviation using frequency tables. Use measure of variation: variance and standard deviation Use the statistic Use standard deviation L3 – interpret measures of variation, extending to standard deviation L3 – be able to calculate standard deviation, including from summary statistics L4 – select or critique data presentation techniques in the context of a statistical problem This is covered further in Book 2, Chapter 13 Statistical distributions 12.2 Ex 12.2A 4 Data cleaning Recap calculating variance and standard deviation from frequency tables and then introduce data cleaning as involving the identification and removal of any invalid Use measure of variation: variance and standard deviation Use the statistic Use standard deviation L4 – select or critique data presentation techniques in the context of a statistical problem 12.2 DS 12.2
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