Maths Statistics Coursework
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Maths Statistics Coursework Guesstimate INTRODUCTION The title of my investigation is 'Guesstimate', as I will be looking at how accurate different people are at estimating. The aim of the investigation is to deduce estimating skills of pupils of different ages, abilities and genders. To do this I have created the following hypotheses: 1) The older you are, the better you are at estimating. 2) The higher the band you are in, the better you are at estimating. 3) Boys are better than estimating than girls. In order to do this I will need to collect information for Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5, and within the stages ability (band) and gender. I will collect this information from a database, which gives us: Key Stage, maths ability (higher, middle or lower band), gender and their estimates of an acute (17°), obtuse (147°) and reflex (302°) angle. However, I will only be...

