Two investigations into houses and house prices, exploring collection of data/designing a survey, and analysing/interpreting/representing data. Investigation 1 compares the homes of students to those in London.Investigation 2 investigates what factors affect London house prices.
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Covers all parts of the GCSE syllabus, including sampling methods (random and stratified sampling). Powerpoint presentation and associated worksheet.
(Used for Tiffin Year 8 scheme of work)
(a) Recap: Know how to construct and interpret stem and leaf diagrams and frequency polygons.
(b) Draw and interpret cumulative frequency diagrams and box plots.
(c) Find quartiles, interquartile range from lists of data and cumulative frequency graphs.
(Used for Tiffin Year 8 scheme of work)
(a) Draw and interpret scatter diagrams.
(b) Identify correlation (e.g. "strong negative")
(c) Draw a line of best fit and use to predict values.
(d) Predict correlation (including strength) from real-life examples when data not given (e.g. house price with distance from London).
(e) (Extension) Determine and use equation of line of best fit.