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Year 10A: World Games

by David Tynan

Objectives

The aim of this activity is for students to think more deeply about data rather than accepting it at face value. 

Vocabulary

  • Countif
  • Scatterplot
  • Weighted Ranking
  • Ratio

About the Lesson

World sporting competitions generally provide a league table of medals with highest position on the table occupied by the most Gold medals won. Is this a fair comparison? How might these tables look if the table was based on medals per million of population or medals based on a country's economic wealth. The TI-Nspire file includes a wealth of data for students to explore.