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Chicken and egg

This Core Maths task is linked to the Baby boom task and explores standardising Normal distributions by analysing the weight of eggs.

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

Chicken and egg: presentation
This PowerPoint and Notebook file presentation introduces the concept of standardising normal distributions and explores examples where this technique can be applied. 

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