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Time Series tell storiesand
QuickStats about ThorndonMathematics Activities and Key CompetenciesResource Sharing for teachers of Years 7-13:
Wellington Maths Association: 13 Aug 09
[email protected]@stats.govt.nz
Statistics New Zealand: www.stats.govt.nz
Contents:1 min: Hallo!9 mins: Activity, in teams, on grape imports5 mins: Results, key competencies, comments0 mins: QuickStats about Thorndon
The rest: Treasures for teachers on our new website
This is experimental: it usesour new Infoshare with your new Key Competencies
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Results from Grapes: Quantity, Cost:
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Results from Grapes: Cost/Quantity:
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The Curriculum’s key competencies:
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Infoshare is new to us …
It caused us heaps of:Thinking Using language, symbols, texts, graphs Managing selvesRelating to each other Participating and contributing
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ThinkingAt the start:Decide strategy: graph and lookRecognise features (patterns)
through the noiseRelate these to the context:
grapes and seasons
Later:Decide strategies:
refine the time seriesand graph them 7
Using language, symbols, texts including GRAPHS
Essential and intuitive tools for:exploring the historycommunicating the findings
Tufte:‘Use words, numbers and graphs
working together’
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Managing selfClarify goalsDiscuss team strategiesNegotiate difficulties
(esp for us in preparing this!!)Reflect on strategies
for solving the difficultiesKeep calm!!
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Relating to others Participating and contributing Share ideas: essential in stats:
no-one knows or sees it allNegotiate methods, findings, actions …Call on the communities of expertise:
each otherthe teacherNZ’s Official Stats System
Then: Use that information as a basis for action
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QuickStats about Thorndon and Tinakori Rd
Your students come from Area Units, of 2 000 people on average.
Each Area Unit has a 14 pg profile.There’s a similar profile for:
Their City or District Their Region.
Where are we at?
Where is Stats NZ??
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Best wishes!
We’d like to:interact, share ideas, negotiate
with teacherscall on a range of communities for information,
including the maths and stats education community
and use that information as a basis for action.
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Thanks!
Our New Website
www.stats.govt.nz
www.stats.govt.nz
Schools Corner
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Activities by Level
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SURF for Schools
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Infoshare – Cows and Sheep
How do I get the data?
Infoshare
Provides time-series data about– Business– The economy– Population– Tourism– Work income and spending– Imports and Exports
Infoshare – A quick guide*
* A much more comprehensive guide is available on the website
Let’s find out how many sheep and cows there are in Canterbury
Make your selections for the variables: regions, observations and time.
Be aware of the limits on table sizes when making your selections
Choose the output option (Table on screen is the default but sometimes excel is better)Hit GO
Search option – useful if you don’t know where to look
Load Query allows you to save a query and re-enter it at a later date once more figures are released
Save your table as a Table Query (.tqx)
Save your query in the dialogue window that appears.
Find any saved query (.tqx) on your computer and hit Go
Help and Glossary tabs
Including a PDF version of the file. A much more comprehensive guide of the tool than we have given you here (1.9MB).
Table Builder
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Selecting variables
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Ages by sex for 1996, 2001 and 2006
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Selecting variables
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