Statistics with Google Forms and Spreadsheets

To kick off this term in Maths, we have been exploring the Statistical Inquiry Cycle.  We began by finding out where we had all travelled over the holidays.  We gathered the data using post-it notes and then grouped them into the categories: Overseas, Within NZ, Within Auckland.

We discussed how arranging the post-its into lines and forming a bar graph of sorts made it so much easier to quickly make meaning of the information.

We then learnt how to graph using Google Spreadsheet.  Fun!  See our example graph below:



Then it was our turn to have a go for ourselves.  We had to each develop a question to investigate.  We worked in small groups to create a Google form to survey our classmates.  Once the data was collected, we again sorted the data into meaningful categories so that we could play with the many options for graphing that Google Spreadsheet offers.

Look in our individual blogs to see our questions and the resulting graphs.  It was a really cool way to learn about graphing and statistics.