1 Time Series tell stories and QuickStats about Thorndon Mathematics Activities and Key Competencies Resource Sharing for teachers of Years 7-13: Wellington Maths Association: 13 Aug 09 Statistics New Zealand:
Contents: 1 min: Hallo! 9 mins:Activity, in teams, on grape imports 5 mins:Results, key competencies, comments 0 mins: QuickStats about Thorndon The rest:Treasures for teachers on our new website This is experimental: it uses our new Infoshare with your new Key Competencies 2
Results from Grapes: Quantity, Cost: 3
Results from Grapes: Cost/Quantity: 4
The Curriculum’s key competencies: 5
Infoshare is new to us … It caused us heaps of: Thinking Using language, symbols, texts, graphs Managing selves Relating to each other Participating and contributing 6
Thinking At the start: Decide strategy: graph and look Recognise features (patterns) through the noise Relate these to the context: grapes and seasons Later: Decide strategies: refine the time series and graph them 7
Using language, symbols, texts including GRAPHS Essential and intuitive tools for: exploring the history communicating the findings Tufte: ‘Use words, numbers and graphs working together’ 8
Managing self Clarify goals Discuss team strategies Negotiate difficulties (esp for us in preparing this!!) Reflect on strategies for solving the difficulties Keep calm!! 9
Relating to others Participating and contributing Share ideas: essential in stats: no-one knows or sees it all Negotiate methods, findings, actions … Call on the communities of expertise: each other the teacher NZ’s Official Stats System Then: Use that information as a basis for action 10
QuickStats about Thorndon and Tinakori Rd Your students come from Area Units, of people on average. Each Area Unit has a 14 pg profile. There’s a similar profile for: Their City or District Their Region. Where are we at? Where is Stats NZ?? 11
Best wishes! We’d like to: interact, share ideas, negotiate with teachers call on a range of communities for information, including the maths and stats education community and use that information as a basis for action. 12 Thanks!
Our New Website
Schools Corner 15
Activities by Level 16
SURF for Schools 17
Infoshare – Cows and Sheep How do I get the data?
Infoshare Provides time-series data about –Business –The economy –Population –Tourism –Work income and spending –Imports and Exports
Infoshare – A quick guide* * A much more comprehensive guide is available on the website Let’s find out how many sheep and cows there are in Canterbury
Make your selections for the variables: regions, observations and time. Be aware of the limits on table sizes when making your selections Choose the output option (Table on screen is the default but sometimes excel is better) Hit GO
Search option – useful if you don’t know where to look
Load Query allows you to save a query and re-enter it at a later date once more figures are released
Save your table as a Table Query (.tqx) Save your query in the dialogue window that appears.
Find any saved query (.tqx) on your computer and hit Go
Help and Glossary tabs Including a PDF version of the file. A much more comprehensive guide of the tool than we have given you here (1.9MB).
Table Builder 30
Selecting variables 31
Ages by sex for 1996, 2001 and
Selecting variables 33