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Join us at the Auckland Mathematics Association workshop to improve knowledge of the new curriculum and assessment standards. Discover different experiment types, planning, data exploration, variability consideration, and report writing. Learn through practical experiments like analyzing pulse rates post-exercise and studying the bounce of balls. Discuss NZQA's assessment standards through surveys. Explore cognitive tasks and investigative steps. Evaluate using worry questions and available resources for science links.
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Experiments at Level 7 Auckland Mathematics Association 2011 Anna Martin Avondale College
Basic overview • Pose a problem that will require an experiment to investigate • Write a plan for the experiment • Carry out the experiment and record data • Analyse the data • Answer the investigative problem • What could possibly go wrong?
WORKSHOP GOALS • Outline process for increasing understanding of new curriculum and associated assessment standards • Share planning for experiments at level 7 • Increase understanding of different types of investigations involving experimental situations
SYNTHESISING AVAILABLE INFORMATION • NZC • Teaching and learning guides • Draft standard • Exemplar tasks (and annotated student exemplars) • Matrix • Workshops
What do students need to Learn • Different types of experiments • How to pose a question for an investigation that needs an experiment • How to plan an experiment • How to explore data from an experiment • How to consider and use variability • How to write a report
EXPERIMENT? • Identify which of the following are experiments, and if so, what kind of experiment. • Describe what should you be looking for in the data.
EXPERIMENT? • What is the relationship between people’s “before exercise” pulse rates and their “after exercise” pulse rates?
EXPERIMENT? • What is the relationship between the height balls are dropped from and the height of the first bounce?
EXPERIMENT? • What is the relationship between the length and maximum circumference of carrots (or other fruit or vegetable?)
EXPERIMENT? • What is the relationship between people’s cubit lengths and their heights? (Cubit length is from elbow to tip of middle finger.)
SURVEY TIME • Is the number of assessment standards (for all qualifications not just NCEA) offered by NZQA greater or less than 5 000? • How many assessment standards do you think are offered by NZQA?
SURVEY TIME • Is the number of assessment standards (for all qualifications not just NCEA) offered by NZQA greater or less than 15 000? • How many assessment standards do you think are offered by NZQA?
SURVEY TIME • Is the number of assessment standards (for all qualifications not just NCEA) offered by NZQA greater or less than 15 000? • How many assessment standards do you think are offered by NZQA?
ACTIVITIES TO ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENT IDEAS http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?PHPSESSID=n3u00b69q2eai42bcanvnk1t74&topic=387.0
TESTING PROCESSES • Myth busters episode on whether it is possible to shoot a ball out of the back of a car at the same speed the car is moving forward so that relative motion is zero.
IDENTIFY and DESCRIBE STEPS IN THE INVESTIGATION • What was the investigative question? • What type of experiment was used? • How many trials were competed OR how many experimental units? • How was the data collected? What measurement tools were used? • What analysis was completed? • What conclusions were made?
USE WORRY QUESTIONS to EVALUATE AND CRITIQUE • GAL (Adults’ statistical literacy: Meanings, Components, Responsibilities – 2002)
Links to science • http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/phase4_20030801/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocessesan/Anonlinesoilexp/Introduction/default.htm
Links to science • http://www.practicalbiology.org/areas/intermediate/control-and-communication/control-of-heart-rate/observing-the-effects-of-exercise-on-the-human-body,75,EXP.html