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Time Series tell storiesand

QuickStats about ThorndonMathematics Activities and Key CompetenciesResource Sharing for teachers of Years 7-13:

Wellington Maths Association: 13 Aug 09

nathaniel.pihama@stats.govt.nzmike.camden@stats.govt.nz

Statistics New Zealand: www.stats.govt.nz

Contents:1 min: Hallo!9 mins: Activity, in teams, on grape imports5 mins: Results, key competencies, comments0 mins: QuickStats about Thorndon

The rest: Treasures for teachers on our new website

This is experimental: it usesour new Infoshare with your new Key Competencies

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Results from Grapes: Quantity, Cost:

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Results from Grapes: Cost/Quantity:

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The Curriculum’s key competencies:

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Infoshare is new to us …

It caused us heaps of:Thinking Using language, symbols, texts, graphs Managing selvesRelating to each other Participating and contributing

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ThinkingAt the start:Decide strategy: graph and lookRecognise features (patterns)

through the noiseRelate these to the context:

grapes and seasons

Later:Decide strategies:

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Using language, symbols, texts including GRAPHS

Essential and intuitive tools for:exploring the historycommunicating the findings

Tufte:‘Use words, numbers and graphs

working together’

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Managing selfClarify goalsDiscuss team strategiesNegotiate difficulties

(esp for us in preparing this!!)Reflect on strategies

for solving the difficultiesKeep calm!!

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Relating to others Participating and contributing Share ideas: essential in stats:

no-one knows or sees it allNegotiate methods, findings, actions …Call on the communities of expertise:

each otherthe teacherNZ’s Official Stats System

Then: Use that information as a basis for action

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QuickStats about Thorndon and Tinakori Rd

Your students come from Area Units, of 2 000 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??

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Best wishes!

We’d like to:interact, share ideas, negotiate

with teacherscall on a range of communities for information,

including the maths and stats education community

and use that information as a basis for action.

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Thanks!

Our New Website

www.stats.govt.nz

www.stats.govt.nz

Schools Corner

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Activities by Level

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SURF for Schools

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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

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Selecting variables

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Ages by sex for 1996, 2001 and 2006

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Selecting variables

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