E-STAT and Function Modelling

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E-STAT Primer (updated Jan 2009)

E-STAT LESSONS FOR GRADES 6-12

Grade 6:
-- Creating Bar Graphs

-- Comparing the Health and Lifestyles of 11 Year Olds around the World

Grade 7:
-- Girls vs. Boys - 3-part Graphing exercise using E-STAT
-- Girls vs. Boys - Graphing exercise using E-STAT (using the Ontario TIPS4RM format)

---- Excel instructions and worksheets
---- Fathom instructions and worksheets
---- Fathom dataset (total)
---- Fathom dataset (separated by sex)
-- Analyzing Provincial Forestry Practices (using graphs to advocate for an issue)
-- When will the average Canadian live to be 100? (TI-Interactive! activity)
-- Nova Scotia: Complete Data Management Unit using E-STAT
-- New Brunswick: Complete Data Management Unit using E-STAT

Grades 10 and 11:
-- Lesson: Quadratic Modelling of Canada's Baby Boom
---- Fathom instructions
---- Fathom dataset
-- Lesson: Quadratic Modelling of the Number of Males Registered in Apprenticeship Programs
---- Fathom instructions
---- Fathom dataset
---- Excel Scrollbars/Sliders instructions
---- Excel dataset

Grades 11 and 12:
-- Lesson: Sinusoidal Modelling of the Number of Marriages by Month using E-STAT Data and Fathom (complete lesson)
---- Fathom instructions
---- Fathom dataset
---- Fathom instructions
---- Fathom dataset
---- Fathom instructions
---- Fathom dataset
---- Article about potatoes in Canada since 1891
Exponential Fathom Datasets
-- Federal Debt
-- Consumer Price Index
-- Aquaculture

Grade 12:
Fathom Datasets for Modelling Composite Functions
-- Births during the Baby Boom - a Combined Sinusoidal and Quadratic Function
-- Tourists Coming to Canada - a Combined Linear and Sinusoidal Function
-- Canada's Urban and Rural Population since 1871- a Combined Linear and Exponential Function
NEW!! Piecewise Functions
-- Lesson: Modelling the Federal Debt since Confederation

PowerPoint for Introducing the Function Modelling Resources
USING E-STAT IN POSTSECONDARY TEACHING
-- 1st year Macroeconomics assignment (L. Soroka, Brock U.)
-- E-STAT lab on balance of trade with the U.S. for a Business statistics course (J. Henderson, Lambton College)

SECONDARY GEOGRAPHY: NATURAL RESOURCES
-- Jigsaw Activity with Worksheets re: Minerals, Forestry, Marine, and Energy (N. Allan)

GRADE 11 GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL & TOURISM LESSONS
-- Impacts on Tourism in Canada
-- Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Stress
-- Winter Activities in Canada