1. Literacy Research Memory Skill Practice Stretch!
Discrete, Continuous, Primary, Secondary, Categorical are all descriptions of data.
Florence Nightingale used data to help improve standards of care for wounded soldiers, find out about her and her mathematical contributions.
Learn the spellings and meanings of the types of data listed in the literacy section.
Skill Practice
Stretch!
Describe the data sets using the relevant keywords from the literacy section above.
A chart showing the average weight of adults over the last 30 years printed in a newspaper.
A list of your friends favourite music genres collected by you for a homework task.
The length of springs you recorded in a science experiment.
You make a list of the number of siblings your friends have.
Bobbie thinks that it is best to find the information you need by searching the internet.
Jo thinks that data you collect yourself must be better.
Give examples of when they each might be wrong.