Math Resources using Canadian Data*

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Step-by-Step Guides to Using the CCHS Health Microdata
-- Installing Version 3.1

---- doc format

-- Step By Step Instructional Guide - Investigating the Prevalence of Diabetes by Health Region (C. Rutledge)

Using the CCHS Microdata in MDM4U, Grand Erie DSB
-- Mini-Investigation, May 2009, pdf format

-- instructions for Beyond 20/20 (updated May 2009)

Student Projects using CCHS Microdata
-- Report - Factors affecting Thyroid Condition (Shafaq, Nepean H.S.)

-- Presentation - Factors affecting Thyroid Condition (Shafaq, Nepean H.S.)

-- Presentation - Canada's Health by Region (Colin McClenaghan and Jack Wei, K.C.V.I.)

-- Report - Canada's Health by Region (Colin McClenaghan and Jack Wei, K.C.V.I.)

Data use agreement for non-publicly funded schools permitting use of the CCHS health microdata with Beyond 20/20 until June 30, 2009

Sample graphs from Beyond 20/20 showing how different factors (age, BMI, physical activity level) affect diabetes rates (PowerPoint)

Teaching Strategy for CCHS Health Microdata (P. Towle, Toronto DSB)

-- Project Information

-- Project Marking sheet

-- Sample student project - Depression vs. Age

Mini-Project using CCHS Microdata
-- Mini-Project Assignment, 2004 (Mary Saunders, Ottawa-Carleton DSB)

---- Sample student mini-project, 2004 - Are Canadians Drinking Too Much?

Overview of Health data sources

HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION RESOURCES

-- Workshop agenda

-- Ontario Grade 7-8

-- Ontario Grade 9-12

-- Lesson: Teen alcohol and drug use

-- Lesson: Smoking statistics

SOCIAL JUSTICE MATHEMATICS RESOURCES
NEW! Links to social justice data sets

Grades 6 to 8:
-- Lesson: Comparing access to technology for Canadian and South African students

---- South African Census at School Data (Excel file, 1000 cases)

Grade 9:
-- Lesson: Investigating Gender Differences in Income

Grade 12:
-- Lesson: Educational Equity

-- Lesson: Investigating income differences among different groups in Canada using census microdata

-- Topics where Statistics Canada has useful data for teaching social justice issues

MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM LINKS
Western and Northern Canadian Protocol (WNCP)
-- Grades 2 to 9 (updated Oct. 16, 2008)

-- Grade 5 to 9 ( Updated August 2009):

-- Grades 10 to 12

Ontario
-- Grades 6 to 12 (Updated, May 2008)

Atlantic Canada
-- Grades 4 to 8

---- doc format (revised October 14, 2008)

-- Grades 10 to 11: Outcomes for Census at School Activities