Statistician

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PART 1: HERE'S WHAT TO DO

Your job will be to find out what a statistician is and what they do. Print out the statistician form below and answer the questions. Good Luck!!

1. What is a statistician and what do they do?

2. Where else do you use statistics besides math?

3. Why are statistics important?

Statistician Form

Resources:

Statisticians

Using statistics

Importance of statistics

PART 2: APPLY WHAT YOU KNOW

Now that you've found out what a Statistician does, try out some of these activities.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Survey.asp

Go to this link and print out the survey. Ask 20 classmates to complete the survey. Then organize the information to demonstrate the statistical results in the chart below.

Survey Data Chart

Here's information to help you understand how to find the landmark data:

http://www.edhelper.com/statistics.htm#S1

Now go to this link and complete the activity. Have fun!

Mean, Median, Mode with Weather