Creative Statistics

 

We have been looking at the purpose of statistics and that how statistics are displayed affects how they are interpreted and 'listened to'. We viewed lots of interesting and creative displays of statistics and then we got creative and looked for powerful ways of displaying some statistics. The statistics we used were of if the world was shrunk down to a village of just 100 people, what would it look like? Here are a few of our finished displays. Well done guys. There were lots of challenges bringing your creative ideas to reality but you persevered and powerfully showed your statistic.

Market day

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What an awesome market day! It was great to see many of you made a profit through your sales. It was good to see you tackling the challenges and stresses of handling money, a business and staff. I think this was a great experience for you to learn some of the skills around finance and business. You had to carefully plan your venture, chose a profitable product, invest gongs for a return later, advertise, evaluate ideas, negotiate deals, as well as many other skills. I'm looking forward to reading your reflections on your blog and the changes you would make next time.

Snow Trip

What an awesome day we had! It was so great watching many of you go from hardly being able to stand up to skiing/boarding down the mountain by the end of the day. Happy valley lived up to its name!

I'm looking forward to reading the reflections on your own blogs. Think about these questions when posting. What advice would you give to someone learning to ski/board. What was challenging and were there points you wanted to give up? What helped you keep going? What attitudes do you need to learn to ski/board? Describe a memorable/funny moment.

Thanks to all the parent helpers, it was great to see you learning too!