15 November 2012

15 November, S1 - 11/M3*

Title: Sampling and Designing a Questionnaire
Room: 28
Learning Objectives 

Grade D

To be able to design questionnaires and surveys which allow us to answer a question.
Can you list the mistakes people commonly make when wording questionnaires? Why might they word questionnaire in this way on purpose?

Grade C
To demonstrate how to use and why we use simple sample methods.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using sampling?

Grade B
To be able to demonstrate the use of stratified sampling.
We use a stratified sample to survey boys and girls in a school. We survey 24 boys and 36 girls, there are 1200 students in the school, how many are boys?


Resources 
Grade D











Questionnaire Worksheet

Grade C
Watch these two videos. Which is the most reliable survey? Can either survey be trusted? 






































Ten Ticks, 7-8, 6, page 43
MEP, 8, page 51

Grade B






Homework: 
Learning Objective for next lesson:

Grade E
To be able to calculate all the outcomes of two independent events (such as tossing a coin & throwing a dice) and calculate probabilities from lists or tables
What is the probability of throwing a total of 7 on two dice?
Grade C
To be able to demonstrate how to use a Tree Diagram to find every combination.  
Without drawing a tree diagram can you tell how many outcomes there will be?
Grade B
To be able to explain how to use a tree diagram to work out the probability of combined events.
How do we calculate the probability of two both events happening?