This resource is part of our Where maths meets the world of work series, which showcases the maths used in different careers. Each video is also linked to one or more activities, so your students can get a real taste of what the career may entail
In this video, you meet Brooklyn and find out how her maths skills and hobbies helped her get a job as a data analyst at Just Eat! In the accompanying activities, students get to have a go at being a data analyst themselves. They will work with a data set and then advise the marketing team on the strategy they should take for their next advert.
The video and accompanying resources have been designed so that they can be completed in one hour but there are plenty of opportunities to extend them further or use as part of home learning.
Activities
Curriculum focus: Upper Key Stage 2
Topic: Interpreting data and averages
Content:
- Rounding and estimation
- Graphs relating 2 variables
There is no requirement that students will have already learnt about the mean average
Curriculum focus: Key Stage 3 and GCSE Foundation
Topic: Interpreting data, measures of central tendency and spread
Content:
- Scatter graphs
There is no requirement that students will have already learnt beyond finding the mean but they will be encouraged to consider other ways of comparing the data
Curriculum focus: Higher Tier GCSE
Topic: Interpreting, analysing and comparing data sets
Content
- Box plots
- Measures of central tendency and spread
- Scatter graphs
Curriculum focus: Core Maths and A level Mathematics
Topic: Interpreting, analysing and comparing data sets
Content:
- Box plots
- Measures of central tendency and spread
- Scatter graphs (optional question on correlation coefficients and lines of regression)
