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Using Desmos for the large data sets

These workbooks explore the different types of activities, using Desmos, that students and teachers might undertake with a Large Data Set so that it can be used effectively to support the learning of statistical concepts.

Key skills explored:

  • Understand the dataset and its context
  • Cleanse a dataset and know how to deal with outliers
  • Sort and Filter the dataset
  • Produce summary statistics
  • Draw frequency charts and box plots for a set of data
  • Draw graphs of several datasets side by side for comparison
  • Draw scatterplots and plot lines and curves of best fit
  • Use technology to calculate correlation coefficients and equations of regression lines
  • Take a random sample from a dataset
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    Using Desmos for the AQA large data set

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    Using Desmos for the Edexcel large data set

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    Using Desmos for the MEI large data set

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    Using Desmos for the OCR large data set

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