The purpose of this activity is to engage students in setting up for a statistical investigation by posing a question within the context given.
This activity assumes the students have experience in the following areas:
The problem is sufficiently open ended to allow the students freedom of choice in their approach. It may be scaffolded with guidance that leads to a solution, and/or the students might be given the opportunity to solve the problem independently.
The example responses at the end of the resource give an indication of the kind of response to expect from students who approach the problem in particular ways.
Some teachers like students to take their shoes off at the door, to keep dirt out of the classroom.
Find out about what you could expect to see piled up at the classroom door if your teacher asked you all to take your shoes off there.
The following prompts illustrate how this activity can be structured around the Problem and Plan parts of the Statistical Enquiry Cycle.
The problem section is about what data to collect and who to collect it from and why it’s important.
The planning section is about how students will gather the data.
The student conjectures about what types of shoes are most common and creates an investigative question about shoes outside their classroom.
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The student poses an investigative question that specifies the features of footware to measure. They conjecture several categories based on how the shoes are fastened.
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