Category Archives: Learning Activities

Just how old are you?

Have fun discovering your age in different units of time: minutes, days, months. Continue reading

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Role models and heroes

These activities on the study of heroes can apply to thematic units, social studies or history, as well as the development of language and critical thinking skills. Continue reading

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How many people live in a Canadian household?

Investigate differences between mean median and mode. Continue reading

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How weird is our class?

Compare your class data to a sample of Canadian results and draw some conclusions. Continue reading

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Survey says? Who says?

Consider what information you can or cannot conclude from a survey. Continue reading

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Circle and bar graphs

Construct circle and bar graphs and compare them. Which type is better to use? Continue reading

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Bias or No Bias?

Consider the effect of bias on survey results. Continue reading

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Travel to school

Analyse the data using stem and leaf plots and pie charts. Continue reading

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You are what you eat!

Build bar graphs illustrating what we eat for breakfast. Continue reading

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What a Zoo!

Examine bar graphs that represent the same data but use different scales. Continue reading

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