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Popular Baby Names

Trends in the popularity of names is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, which illustrates the concepts and strategies for interpreting data. Because there is no one explanation for the change of popularity of names this resource raises one of the fundamental issues in applying mathematics, namely that the mathematics being used is quite straight-forward but the interpretation of the results in the real world is much more complex.

A detailed lesson plan supports the implementation of this activity, which is designed to prompt discussion and develop mathematical thinking.

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Age11-14, 14-16
Published2000 - 2009
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