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GCSE Foundation: Rules and tools for Data

Download a PDF file with 38 pages of revision notes for GCSE Foundation students.

9 000 words, 23 tables, and plenty of formulas and diagrams, including scans of hand drawn graphs. Topics covered include

• Mean, Median, Mode and range
• Puzzles working backwards from mean
• Qualitative, quantitative discrete and quantitative continuous data
• The data collection cycle; hypothesis, collecting data analysing data and interpreting findings
• Data collection sheets
• Questionnaire questions and bias
• Primary and secondary data
• Pictograms
• Tally charts for discrete and grouped continuous data
• Mean, median and mode from discrete frequency table and estimated from a grouped frequency table
• Bar charts; clustered and stacked
• The pie chart
• Frequency bar charts and frequency polygons
• Comparing frequency distributions for average and range
• Stem and leaf diagrams
• Scatter diagrams and correlation: describing the pattern, line of best fit, making predictions
• Two way tables
• Sampling and bias, random samples, calculating the size of stratified samples
• Probability; Likelihood words, probability scale, probability of something not hapening; combined events, list outcomes, sample space diagram, expected frequency and relative frequency

This resource has been used by 100+ students in two of the centres I teach in.

See also the Rules and Tools for Number.

Keith Burnett, Last update: Sun Mar 02 2014