Arguably the most famous awards in the world, but are the Academy Awards® ageist and sexist? The mean age of female winners is 36 compared with males at 44, but Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) won an award at age 81, the oldest award recipient. Katherine Hepburn won an award at age 74. What can the rest of the data tell us about the distribution of ages for both males and females. Students explore different representations of the data and interpret these to answer the big question, are the awards ageist and sexist?

Electronic, auto correcting assessment for the Australian Mathematics Curriculum standard ACMSP248 using the TI-Navigator system including a companion PDF of the same for teachers that do not have access to the TI-Navigator System.

Students are given data containing the height, weight, age and field positions of all football players from the 32 teams which participated in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In this activity, students create a series of box plots to compare the key features of this data.