Statistics Question Types

Zip file of 4 exam papers plus an Excel file (answer grid) detailing each type of question. Good activity for students familiarise themselves with recognising the types of question.

Print out the exam papers (on different coloured card), cut up each question and ask pupils to match up all the binomials, geomatrics, perms & combs, prob dists, Spearmans ranks etc.

Cakes & Celebrities

A great starter to introduce Spearmans Rank Correlation Coefficient. Print out two sets of cards, cut up and ask two pupils to order them according to preference. Compare pupils orders using Spearmans Rank. For the celebrities suggest 'who would they most prefer to go to dinner with'.

Autograph File: Linear Regression

A nice starter example and then the main activity is four sets of data for pupils to plot scatter diagrams and discover if positive, negative, weak strong or no correlation. This is a great activity if used on Autograph as pupils can then add a least squares regression line and find the equation of etc.

Completed Autograph files of each set are here: 1, 2, 3, 4. Or everything as a is zip file.

Notes for doing this activity.

Statistics Formulae

Statistics formula. Most are included in the formula book but you must make sure you know how to use them!

Variance Formula

Variance formula, typed out neatly so you don't have to write it!

Combinations

How many ways to choose 0, 1, 2 or 3 from 3 cards. Or 0-4 from 4 cards, or even 5! (An introduction to Pascals).

Perms & Combs

Crib sheet for Stats 1 - Permutations and Combinations

Pack of Cards

To download images of a pack of cards as a single zip file.