Good prospects ahead for data mining
Activities
Australian Bureau of Statistics
CensusAtSchool Mathematics - Extended Activities – students look for relationships and find patterns in real data from Australian school students.
Megamathematics (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Activities – how algorithms can be used to solve problems concerning the efficient use of resources.
Australian Science Teachers Journal
Using spreadsheets in astronomy – patterns and trends in data become more evident when they are graphed (March 1998, pages 52-53).
New technology, new questions: Using an Internet database in chemistry – students search Internet databases to ask questions about the periodic table (June 1996, pages 39-42).
The Educator's Reference Desk (USA)
Solving linear regression problems using the TI-83 graphing calculator – uses data on the average distance from the sun and the orbital period of asteroids.
University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Stock prices 1 – uses graphs to compare patterns of changes in stock prices over time.
Academy Curricular Exchange (Columbia Education Center, USA)
A statistical study on the letters of the alphabet.
Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
What can data tell us? – students analyse data and look for circumstances that might bias the results of a study.
Page updated June 2010.