Stats concentrate on the context of the numbers. The analysis
Mathematics is how you get the numbers/data
What questions would you ask if you were teaching a lesson on mean?
Mathematical Find the mean of the class spelling scores.
Statistical - What do these scores/mean tell me?
What is the difference between statistical questions and mathematical questions?
Mathematical questions are asking you to find an answer/number. Finding the statistic is a mathematical problem.
Statistical questions are asking to analyze those answers/number. Statistics is interpreting the data.
How to formulate an appropriate statistical question
- Consider what the data is
- where you are getting the data
- formulate a question that is free of bias
- Look at the research, make sure it is valid research
Key with Data Analysis - you don't do the analysis until you do the math. The math comes first, the analysis comes next.
Data Collection
- Tally marks
- tables
- pictographs
- bar graphs
- line graphs
- frequency tables
- line plots
- stem and leaf plot
- circle graphs
- histograms
- box and whisker plots
