Overview

This is two session professional development course investigating how data can be visualised using technology, which will be of interest to teachers of all key stages. By using Desmos we will consider how changes to the data affect these visualisations and how, through these changes, we can help to develop students' understanding and appreciation of summary statistics, their ability to make comparisons between different data sets and their ability to efficiently analyse data. 

Aims

• Introduce dynamic visualisations of data by using the online Desmos graphing calculator
• Use the Desmos graphing calculator and spreadsheets to support students understanding and learning of statistics
• Use of Desmos and spreadsheets to take random samples of data sets and produce visualisations from these

Who will benefit from attending?

This course will be suitable for all teachers of Mathematics who wish to develop their students' understanding and ability to analyse and interpret data from KS3 to KS5.

Content

During this course we will be using real data with software including Excel spreadsheets and the Desmos graphing calculator to visualise and analyse this data. Over the two sessions we will focus on

• Generating summary statistics, changing elements of the data and seeing the effect, analysing single and bivariate data sets.
• Using the Desmos graphing calculator to effectively generate multiple random samples and how the sample and sample size can effect the summary statistics obtained.
• Looking at probability distributions using the technology and how they lead into hypothesis testing.

Along with suggesting ideas that may be useful for all key stages.

Study schedule

Session 1

18th April 2023

Analysing and visualising raw data and samples.

Session 2

11th July 2023

Follow up to session 1 and looking at the probability distributions and hypothesis testing.

Key facts

• Reference:#10539
• Audience:Teachers
• Curriculum focus:11-16 Maths, Core Maths
• Mathematical focus:Statistics, Use of technology
• Format:Face-to-face
• Duration:3 hour(s)
• Online sessions:2
• Region:West Midlands
• Start date:18 Apr 2023
• Fee:Free