4.+Thursday

= Thursday =

Session 1 - Examinations!
Starter - Tarsia Puzzle - - see others - this software can be downloaded from here

Lots of ready made Tarsia puzzles can be found here  An overview of the assessment, grades, passing criteria, calculator & non-calculator papers What do the exams look like? The Teachers wanted to look at some exam questions and to compare how they were assessed to be able to compare examination marking with coursework marking. IB HL Exam questions with markscheme

Session 2 - Using Real Data
Looking at some sources of real and interesting data. How google forms could be used to collect data from different classes, schools, etc. An example of an international school survey created with google forms http://internationalstudentsurvey.wikispaces.com/Survey_2011 Fill in a google form questionnaire. media type="custom" key="9944309"

Create own

Using Readily Available data Gapminder - [] - and an activity that exploits it [] World Stats - [] Data visualisations - [] Computational Search Engine - []

Session 3 - Autograph for Statistics﻿ & Probability
Starter - The post office. Guess the p-value game.

We can use Autograph to represent these probability distributions. plotting graphs (cumulative frequency, box plots, ...

Plotting histograms & probability distributions

Scatter graphs (in 2D graph!) & residuals (if possible with )

samples, central limit theorem, etc.

Session 4 - Dynamic Geometry 1
Puzzle - Tethered goat with Geogebra This session will make use of the FREE dynamic software Geogebra. It can be downloaded onto your computer or you can use an online version requiring Java from here []

Introductory question - How do you teach the circle theorem? Discovery - produce these using Geogebra.

What are the advantages of getting the students to prodcue these figures for themselves?

Transformations - demonstrate how... Now some challenges that involve some critical thinking!! - **the** ** following videos need downloading ** Dr Who [|Kaleidescopes] Examples of applets already created Unit circle - [] Discovering SOHCAHTOA - []