Statistics in our day to day life

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How is everybody doing today?

Today I am going to talk about statistics. The truth that it when I was a child (and still today), I love maths, but statistics was one of my favourite’s parts of the maths contents when I was at school. And I think that the main reason of this is because it was the only thing that my teacher explained us related to our reality. I mean, I believe children are much more interested about anything that they learn at the school and they feel that they can use in their day to day life. And why? Well, it is totally comprehensible. It Is boring and demotivating to learn something just to do exercises and exams at the school.

So, here with statistics you have a great content to teach to your students close to their life.

And how? Well, it is so simple. You just need to design activities o problems where they have to collect the data they need to solve them or that talk about things they are interested in.

Here I am going to give you two examples of problems where, before solving them, the students need to recollect the data needed.

1. Create a bar graph where you show the four seasons and the number of students of the class that there born on each one.

2. Create a graphic where you show the 12 months of the year and how many children of the school where born on each one.

You can also find already created activities on the internet that your students could like. And I would also like to recommend you an app that you can use in the class or show your students how to use at home and that is really useful and helpful for them: Calculator of Statistics.

Thanks for reading!