1. The Average Year Nine Pupil

2. What do we mean by the Average year 9 Pupil?
What is an Average?
Which average is best?
Is there anything else we need to consider?

3. What maths will we need to find the average year nine pupil?

4. To find the average you will need to gather some information first.
Getting information
You will need to use....
Questionnaires
Measuring instruments

5. How can you display the information you gather?
Charts and Graphs are important
Will you use a simple Bar Chart?
How can you split the information between the two genders?
It is important to show proportion.
How can you include Fractions and Percentages?

6. How can you show how the information is “spread”
What things are you going to need to show?
Some ideas might be......
Size of family – number of pets – favourites
Percentages - Fractions

7. You will have a few lessons to produce an answer
As usual the answer will be by way of A3 size poster
The marks will be gained for content and clarity of work

8. The AVERAGE Year Nine Pupil
He prefers..
He has...
She prefers..
She has...

9. You must now decide what you are going to do!
Remembering your PLTS, consider group working skills and allocate work to the person best suited to the role.
There are several tasks involved in this investigation.....

10. Decide which information you will analyse
Design a suitable method for data collection
Gather the information
Analyse the information
Produce a simple yet effective A3 poster detailing your results.

11. Approximate timescales
Design the Data collection sheets
Analyse the information
Gather the information
Produce the poster