AS and A level Maths: Statistics

Overview

Live Online Professional Development (LOPD) courses form a programme of innovative online courses, designed to enable teachers to develop their teaching with confidence in a convenient, stress-free way.

LOPD courses are delivered using a browser-based online classroom that allows participants to collaborate online in real time. The courses aim both to cover subject content common to all current specifications and to facilitate the exchange of teaching ideas. Rather than attending a one or two day course away from school or college, participants will use the internet to meet weekly online.

This course comprises eight online sessions with an experienced tutor, each between 60 and 90 minutes in length and delivered in a small group of teachers allowing opportunities for interaction and discussion.

Aims

• To provide teachers with an opportunity to improve or refresh their subject knowledge of the main topics that typically feature in AS & A level statistics
• To provide opportunities to interact with the course tutors and other delegates in a small group to discuss subject content, resources and teaching ideas.

Who will benefit from attending?

Teachers who are new to offering the statistics element of the A level Mathematics course and those who are seeking to refresh their approach in this context.

Content

• Using large data sets (focusing on using the results from analyses)
• Sampling
• Calculating with large data sets (techniques on a spreadsheet/calculator)
• Probability
• Binomial distribution
• Normal distribution
• Hypothesis testing using the Binomial distribution
• Hypothesis testing using Normal distribution

Materials and Equipment

You will need access to a good internet connection, using Chrome or Firefox as a browser. You will need a headset with a microphone to engage with the live sessions and most courses also require a means of handwriting on the shared whiteboard, such as a graphics tablet or interactive whiteboard.

Other Information

The order of topics may be subject to change.

Cost

The course fee for LOPD is £195.

Shortly after applying for an LOPD course, applicants who are working in a state-funded school or college in England will receive a form to be used to apply for a full reimbursement of the course fee. This will be awarded subject to the following conditions being met:

• the full fee has been paid
• the applicant has completed at least 75% attendance
• the applicant has completed the evaluation form for the course
• the reimbursement application has been submitted

For more information, visit our subsidies page.

Study Schedule