Victor

My Mathex 09 Reflections; Good question enabled you to remain focused on your selected issue- what motivated you to tackle this issue? Do you have some previous experience or ideas in this area? You included a good prediction and gave some explanation about your thoughts about this issue. A plan should be included in your investigation- plan out the numbers of your sample and what categories you'll look into in the census. Your data goes immediately into the graph stage, without any tabulating, sorting or statistical analysis like averaging. This helps you to identify any patterns in the data that might not come up in your graphs. Your graphs lack some very important elements- the axes are not labelled, so it is impossible to identify trends or patterns if I don't know what I'm looking at!! This is SO important- when you say in your conclusion that 'it is clear that...' it really ISN"T very clear!!
 * //To use data and statistics/ To use mathematical inquiry// ||
 * Stage 1; Identify the problem and form a question || You have created a clear question to investigate, but you haven't really explained why you think this is an issue worth investigating. ||
 * Stage 2; Plan and hypothesise || You have made a hypothesis BUT I'm interested why you think your chosen ethnicity would be less interested in the environment than any other- why do you think this? Do you have experience in real life or some other knowledge which might help you back up your ideas? Also, the interest level about the environment might be difficult to ascertain if you look at too many questions/ areas about the environment- keep focused on one or two. ||
 * Stage 3; Data collection || Good number of sample from the survey- but (as above) don't try to include too many sections/ questions relating to environment. ||
 * Stage 4; Analysis of data || Well grouped/ organised and good use of mean average. Why not use the other measures of average? That way, you can construct box/whisker graphs which would give you ideas about any patterns and would help you to compare the different groups. ||
 * Stage 5; Graphing and charting your data || Your bar chart is simple to read and interpret data from, but not conclusive about the answers to your questions- you should try and construct another graph or two to see if you can get more distinct data. ||
 * Stage 6; Interrogating your graphed data || Very simple statements- did you try to average the averages of people's perceptions to find out who had the highest regard overall? Remember also, that the results reflect students- not representing the populations of different groups as a whole. ||
 * Stage 7; Conclusion, answer and 'So What' || It is difficult to conclude any real patterns for your data, using the graphs you have produced- you need to look more closely, and even perform some more statistical analysis on your results to see if there is any pattern. You had some interesting "So What" thoughts about possible future implications for other surveys. ||

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