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Body temperature
This Core Maths task asks the question ‘How do you know if you are really unwell?’ The activity explores the data surrounding body temperature, shows how to summarise continuous data and explores the effect on summary statistics that changing the size of the class interval has.
Body temperature: Teacher guidance
This detailed teacher guidance gives a step-by-step on how best to approach each part of the activity, including what questions to ask to prompt discussion.
Body temperature: presentation
This PowerPoint presentation introduces the activity and includes data sets, calculations, graphs and charts for the data.
Body temperature: data
This student handout includes data taken from the article ‘What’s Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate’, by Allen Shoemaker, which appeared in the Journal of Statistics Education (1996). The dataset includes data from a sample of 130 people.
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