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StatCan resources for math teachers
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/kits-trousses/courses-cours/edu05_0019-eng.htm

MDM4U resources on the Brock University website
http://www.brocku.ca/cmt/mdm4u/resr/index.html

Statistics Canada resources for math outcomes in Atlantic Canada, grades 4 
to 8
http://lrt.ednet.ns.ca/PD/pdf/AtOut_gr4_8.pdf

Statistics Canada resources for math outcomes in Atlantic Canada, grades 9 
to 12
http://lrt.ednet.ns.ca/PD/pdf/AtOut_gr9_12.pdf

E-STAT database and graphing engine. Use E-STAT for math and the social 
sciences to graph, tabulate, download, analyze, and map over 36 million time 
series (from over 250 surveys), about 2 700 tables, and over 1 700 census 
variables for every community in Canada.
http://estat.statcan.gc.ca

Conseil Scolaire catholique du Nouvel Ontario
This website containings several MDM4U activities and datasets from 
Statistics Canada in French, courtesy of the Conseil scolaire catholique du 
nouvel Ontario.
http://www2.nouvelon.ca/secondaire/enseignants/classes/mathematique/activites_mdm4u.php

Statistics: Power from Data! � an online resource for independent learning 
for grades 8 to 12
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/edu/power-pouvoir/toc-tdm/5214718-eng.htm

Resources for the MAP4C Grade 12 college math course, courtesy of Amy 
Scales, Listowel District Secondary School, Avon Maitland 
Board
http://fc.avonmaitland.on.ca/~amy_scales

Data Management using E-STAT. This document was written by the Nova Scotia 
Ministry of Education for the Data Management Unit of their Grade 9 
Mathematics course. The activities and lessons utilize the resources 
available through Statistics Canada's E-STAT web materials. The document is 
70 pages long.
http://lrt.ednet.ns.ca/PD/pdf/gr_9_statistics_canada.pdf

Census at School project in Canada
http://www.censusatschool.gc.ca

United Kingdom Census at School
This site hosts the international Census at School data results and the 
random data selector tool.  It also has a large bank of teacher resources 
and ideas for using class results.
http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk/

Halton Peel Regional Data Fair
http://www.hprdf.org/index.html

Ontario Assocation for Mathematics Education (OAME)
http://www.oame.on.ca

Activities and datasets from StatCan and elsewhere for use with Fathom
http://www.keypress.com/fathom/pages/community_exchange/activities_and_documents/activities.php

Canadian Math Education Study Group
http://publish.edu.uwo.ca/cmesg/

Math Central - An Internet service for mathematics teachers and students 
from kindergarten to Grade 12.
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/

Resources for Grade 7 mathematics in French, including E-STAT 
lessons.
http://www2.nouvelon.ca/elementaire/enseignant/7annee/mathematiques/activites.php

Resources for Grade 8 mathematics in French, including E-STAT 
lessons.
http://www2.nouvelon.ca/elementaire/enseignant/8annee/mathematiques/activites.php

French language website containing a collection of Statistics Canada 
resources for mathematics.  This site is intended to be comparable to 
http://teacherweb.com/ON/Statistics/Math/
http://teacherweb.com/ON/Statistique/Math/

The Canadian Mathematical Society
http://camel.math.ca/

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org/

Carol Miron's website with assignments, strategies, and other useful 
documents for teaching MDM4U, making heavy use of the census data on E-STAT.
http://citieslab.utsc.utoronto.ca/~hocarol/DMWBCourse.htm#Assessment

Gary Greer's website of resources for teaching MDM4U (Frontenac Secondary 
School, Kingston)
http://frontenacss.limestone.on.ca/staff/greer/mdm4u.php

Richard Gaskell's site with tips on how to analyze Census at School data 
using Excel and pivot charts.
http://www.axonlearn.com/pivot.html

How to analyze Census at School data with TinkerPlots software, as 
documented by the New Zealand Census at School team.
http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2005/tinkerplots/

How to analyze Census at School data using Fathom software, as documented by 
the New Zealand Census at School team.
http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2005/fathom/

More activities and worksheets to help you complete the Census at School 
survey with your class, courtesy of Cynthia Rutledge, London, Ontario.
http://www.census2go.ca/cr/


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