LEVEL 1 MATHS AT LONG BAY COLLEGE
Credits: 5
Instructions and information:
1. Before undertaking this assessment, you must read and sign the authenticity statement via the link here: Authenticity Statement
2. Read through the information before starting your assignment.
3. Follow your teacher's instructions for how to submit your assessment (this could be via Assignments in teams, in One Note or printed out and handed in).
4. This task sheet briefly outlines what you should include in your report. You should access your class notes and your class One Note or Content Library for additional resources.
5. You may conduct contextual research online (within the authenticity guidelines) to support your investigation.
6. You may use an appropriate graphing program or website to set up your data displays.
7. You may work on your assessment both in the allocated class time and outside of class time.
8. Your teacher will tell you when your first draft is due for Achieved checking and basic feedback.
9. The due date for the final draft of your task is 3:30pm on Friday 27 June 2025.
10. Present your investigation in a written report of up to 1000 words.
In this Assessment Activity, you will use the Long Bay College results from our participation in the Census At School Tatauranga Ki Te Kura to investigate information that has been collected by students in year 11 Mathematics at Long Bay College, about themselves, in Aotearoa New Zealand.
You will follow a statistical enquiry process and have the option to:
A. Complete a COMPARISON report by comparing a single variable between two groups
OR
B. Complete a RELATIONSHIP report by determining a relationship between two variables for a single group.
PREAPPROVED QUESTIONS
You may select from one of the four questions below or your own preferred question.
Comparison Questions:
1. I wonder if the distance (in cm) jumped by students who had a target line tends to be greater than the distance (in cm) jumped by students without a target line for level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College.
2. I wonder if the time taken (in minutes) to travel to school by bus for level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College tends to be greater than the time taken (in minutes) to travel to school by car for level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College.
Relationship Questions:
1. I wonder if there is a relationship between the height (in cm) of level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College and the left foot length (in cm) of level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College.
2. I wonder if there is a relationship between the right foot length (in cm) of level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College and the standing jump distance (in cm) for level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College.
Own Comparison or Relationship Question:
Should you prefer to investigative a statistical question of your own choosing, please discuss your investigative question with your teacher and have it approved before starting your report.
Step 1: Exploring a purpose
Use the level 1 Mathematics Students at Long Bay College Data Set from the Census At School survey to explore the data. As part of your exploration, you should identify the purpose of your investigation and consider the benefits of any enquiry process you complete. What might you expect to find in your investigation? How useful will the findings be and how widely could they be applied? complete for this Assessment Activity. If you do not opt for one of the preapproved questions above, your After your exploration, decide on the specific comparison or relationship investigation you would like to kaiako will look at your chosen investigation and confirm with you the formal investigative question or statement that you will use in steps 2-4. They will also help you to identify the population you are working with. The population for this assessment is "level 1 Mathematics students at Long Bay College."
Step 2: Planning the investigation
Identify the variables of the data that you have sourced and check if they meet the requirements of your investigative question or statement. Ensure that you record your population. Describe the data collection process that was used to source data for your investigation. This may include identifying and explaining different sources of variation that need to be controlled in the original process of collecting this data and explaining the effect of controlling the variation.
Step 3: Sourcing and preparing data
Source appropriate data for your investigation. Clean your data where necessary and prepare it for analysis.
Step 4: Exploring, analysing, and forming conclusions about the data
Using applications such as NZGrapher select and use appropriate visualisations and suitable measures. What do you notice as you explore the visualisations? Link your comments about features to the context of your investigation.
Now that you have explored the data, explain what you have learned that is relevant to the purpose of your enquiry.
If your investigation is based on a relationship between two variables, use your findings to make a useful prediction. Discuss any choices you made and the usefulness of any results.
Make informal inferences or generalisations using your data, discuss sampling variability, and reflect on the statistical enquiry process. Remember to always link back to the investigation purpose.
How to present your learning
Written report- up to 1000 words maximum.
Student resources
In One Note, you have access to the full set of data and the census questions.