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Circle Zap
Filename: http://abacus.maths.uq.edu.au/~mrb/java/CircleZap/
Date: --
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: HTML page
Description: A Java implementation of a data gathering activity in Active Stats. Students use a mouse to click as near as possible, and as quickly as possible, the centre of circles that appear at random positions.

The distance from the previous circle, the distance of the mouse from the actual centre and the time between clicks are given in a table that is easily copied into a statistics program or a spreadsheet.

A sample of interesting questions that can be explored are given on the web page. The Java implementation was created by Dr. Michael Bulmer, University of Queensland.



Year 8 Unit on Statistics
Filename: statunit.doc (15 Kb)
Date: 13-Jun-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: Word 97 document
Description: The outline of a three week unit on Statistics for Year 8. It is based on students gathering their own data and learning to display and summarise the data in various ways.



Gathering Data in the Classroom
Filename: stu_dat2.doc (9 Kb)
Date: 7-Jun-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: Word 2.0 document
Description: The best data to work with in a classroom is that data which is gathered by the students themselves.

This document contains a large collection of ideas, gathered from here, there, everywhere.



Pop Clock
Filename: popclock.html (7 Kb)
Date: 26-May-98
Submitted By: Susan Boone
Format: HTML Document
Description: Students will review the Census Bureau's Homepage on the Internet and gather data regarding trends in population. They will study this data and make predictions on future populations and compare their results with the information available on the Internet.



Code Breaking
Filename: codebrek.html (3 Kb)
Date: 26-May-98
Submitted By: Rex Boggs
Format: HTML Document
Description: Here is a secret message, written using a Substitution Code. In a substitution code, each letter of the alphabet is replaced by another letter. Your job is to break the code, and find the secret message.

This is a challenging activity, but solvable by a year 8 student with persistence. Also, I think it contains an error, just to make it more challenging :-).



An Introductory Lesson on Descriptive Statistics
Filename: doc1.rtf (2 Kb)
Date: 26-May-98
Submitted By: Jenny Kotlerman
Format: Rich Text Format
Description: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics



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Last Modified: Fri Jun 25 18:09:56 1999 by rex