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The Jellyblubber colony

In this Core Maths task students are introduced to a new species of jellyfish that has been found off the Sussex coast and nicknamed ‘jellyblubbers’ by local people. It impossible to count how many ‘jellyblubbers’ are present, but some data has been collected and is being analysed for the purpose of answering the specific question: ‘On average, how big is a jellyblubber?’

Jellyblubbers: Teacher guidance
This teacher guidance gives an overview of the task including prior student knowledge, suggested approaches and possible extensions.

Jellyblubbers: presentation
This PowerPoint presentation guides students through finding samples from which to estimate the size of the ‘jellyblubbers’.

Jellyblubbers: data
This student handout contains the lengths of the 100 ‘jellyblubbers’ in the colony from which  a representative sample can be collected

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Subject(s)Mathematics
Age16-19
Published2010 to 2019
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Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/rx4c83

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