Body analyser
This is a level 3 statistics activity from the Figure It Out theme series. A PDF of the student activity is included.
About this resource
Figure It Out is a series of 80 books published between 1999 and 2009 to support teaching and learning in New Zealand classrooms.
This resource provides the teachers' notes and answers for one activity from the Figure It Out series. A printable PDF of the student activity can be downloaded from the materials that come with this resource.
Specific learning outcomes:
- Interpret data shown on a pie graph.
- Show fractions on a pie graph.
- Find all possible outcomes.
Body analyser
Achievement objectives:
S3-1: Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle: gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category and whole number data and simple time-series data to answer questions; identifying patterns and trends in context within and between data sets; communicating findings using data displays.
Required materials:
- Figure It Out, Level 3, Theme: Time Travel, "Body analyser", pages 22-23
- 3 classmates
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- Body analyser activity (.pdf)
Activity
You may need to start this activity by discussing with the students the information they are able to obtain from the pie graph and how they can interpret it to make up statements. Afterwards, the students might like to discuss their three statements with a classmate.
For question 2, encourage the students to consider the strategies they could use to complete the pie graph for the Zerkonian. They may convert all of the fractions to twelfths, divide the pie graph into twelfths (like a clock face), and then complete the pie graph. Number lines may help with this task:
For your information, the exact make-up of elements in the human body is as follows: oxygen 65%, carbon 18.5%, hydrogen 9.5%, nitrogen 3.2%, calcium 1.5%, and other elements 2.3%.
To help the students calculate the number of games in the first round of the rugby competition, draw a diagram like the one sketched below. Each line is a game. Count the number of lines to work out the number of games in each round.
The students’ drawings here will need to be fairly simple and clear to allow their classmates to count the heads and limbs easily. Note that they don’t need to draw the contestants from Earth and Zerkon because these are already shown in the illustrations.
In question 1, the students interpret the data displays in order to draw the contestants. In question 2, they swap pictures with classmates and record details about the contestants in data displays.
Activity One
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Teacher to check
2.
a.
b.
Teacher to check.
c.
Activity Two
10 games.
Activity Three
Practical activity.
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