Blogs about Teaching Statistics Based Topics

A-Level Scheme of work: Edexcel A-Level Mathematics Year 2: Statistics: Regression, Correlation and Hypothesis Testing

Linking cumulative frequency graphs to ratio, percentages and financial mathematics.

Common misconceptions when plotting scatter graphs and does correlation always mean causation?

Scheme of work for applied A-Level mathematics: Statistics: Data Collection

How to compare datasets using box and whisker diagrams.

An intuitive understanding of ho to find the mean from a frequency table.

Problem solving lesson on two-way tables and frequency trees.

How to plot and interpret a frequency diagram and polygon from grouped data.

How to teach plotting and interpreting histograms with unequal class widths.

The importance of the range when comparing comparing datasets.

How to teach finding the probability of events using Venn diagrams.

I teach mutually exclusive outcomes directly after students have encountered Venn diagrams. This is the fifth Year 8 Probability lesson.

How to teach drawing and interpreting frequency trees.

Earlier this week the school I work at was inspected. This caused a mixture of reaction amongst the staff. As a teacher of mathematics with a number of GCSE classes I was pretty confident I could expect to be observed. Box plots and whisker diagrams was my observation lesson. Beginning the Lesson As the students…

This is the second lesson in a probability project where students use probability to design a casino gambling game. In the first lesson the class created a spinner using fixed probabilities and compared the expected frequency of events with the actual results. This concluded with a discussion about the difference between theoretical and experimental probabilities,…

I love teaching probability. For me, it is not necessarily about working out the likelihood of an event occurring but working out the event when given the probability. What I mean by this is it’s not difficult to understand the probability of a fair dice landing on a 3 is 1/6 or the chances of picking…