Statistics quiz

Teaching statistics in school is important because

• It is useful for daily life

• It links well to other disciplines

• It is important for developing critical reasoning

• All of the above

Pedagogical content knowledge refers to:

• having a secure subject knowledge

• being able to use specific strategies within a particular topic

• being aware of children's prior learning

• the creation of detailed lesson plans

Being statistically literate enables..

• children's higher order thinking skills to be assessed

• children to use a range of different graphs

• effective deductions to be made from data

• teachers to provide suitable resources for different tasks

Chick and Pearce identified that:

• teachers did not focus enough on data interpreting skills

• teachers generally had a positive attitude towards statistics

• teachers' plans often lacked depth in statistics

• teachers' content knowledge was limited

Based on Bloom's taxonomy, which words best link to synthesis:

• adapt, construct, devise

• defend, conclude, interpret

• illustrate, examine, infer

• predict, select, organise

The concept of affordances refers to:

• the need to develop content knowledge

• allowing time for children to discuss key concepts

• affording children time to practise their statistical skills

• learning opportunities that are inherent in a task

WHich of these are examples of continuous data?

•  rainfall over time

• shoe sizes

• height

• how children travel to school

• h

If A = £1, B = £2, C = £3 etc, whose name is worth the most?

• Georgina

• Ashley

• Merryn

• Lauren