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The Lives of Presidents

Text The Lives of Presidents

TLF ID M020731

This resource is a web page containing an investigative task that involves the analysis of data. Data about Presidents of the United States of America in the form of a spreadsheet is provided. Create your own questions for inquiry the sort the spreadsheet by relevant criteria. A 'Getting started' and 'Solutions' page is also available to support the task. This resource is an activity from the NRICH website.

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Educational value
  • NRich provides relevant lessons plans to support mathematics teaching and learning.
Year level

7; 8

Topics Stem and leaf plots Central tendency Presidents Distributions (Statistics) Range (Statistics) Outliers
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: NRICH\, University of Cambridge
  • Organization: NRICH\, University of Cambridge
  • URL: http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage
  • Publisher
  • Name: NRICH\, University of Cambridge
  • Organization: NRICH\, University of Cambridge
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Text
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  • © 1997-2016 University of Cambridge.This material may be used, downloaded, and copied free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided any copyright notices are retained. Refer to http://nrich.maths.org/terms