Statistics Investigation: Litter coming from the canteen
Kirsten, Shannon, and Angel Introduction: This statistical investigation is investigating why students from our school think other residents of our school are littering and how they think we can solve this problem. Our group thinks that the outcome of our investigation, the results could be that students are too lazy to go to a bin and to solve this students will most likely vote that more bins are needed for resolving the problem though we still think this may not completely make the problem go away and there will always be some students who will keep on littering. Problem: Litter, in our school students are throwing a lot of rubbish into/ onto places other than the blue rubbish bins that are placed around the school. Kirsten, Shannon, and Angel are going to investigate what percentage of rubbish has come from the canteen and what percentage of rubbish is coming from student’s lunch boxes. Participants involved in our investigation:
Participants involved are random canteen purchasers and a Bio-lingual class, a main stream class, and Room 19. Materials: To record the data for the investigation our group needs to use a pen and paper to record data, internet access to present the data and also the investigation needs participants to ask questions to ensure that we get the right data. Procedure: To fulfil this investigation you need to decide on when the survey will take place and ask all the bio-lingual classes, mainstream, and all the laptop class teachers if you can survey their class. Aim to survey at least 6 classes. To survey a class, firstly state the title and say what the survey is about. Then call out what their options are, and after they know what their options are, ask them to vote once for each, question / subject. Thank the class that you hosted and leave. Transfer the results into tally chart after you have surveyed all the classes and then discuss what graphs to use to present your results. Present data in graphs and end with a discussion column. Hypothesis: We think we need more rubbish bins around the school because, students cannot be bothered walking to a rubbish bin. Questions: · Why do you think people are littering ,
· Too lazy to go to a bin ·
Don’t care about our school environment ·
Are trying to make other syndicates areas of care messy · How do you think we can solve this,
· Bring more rubbish bins in to the school · Use posters to encourage people to put their rubbish in the bin · Give the students who litter after school detention Results:165 students voted that residents from our school are too lazy to go to the bins and 109 voted that how we could solve this are to get more rubbish bins around the school.19 students think that they the students that litter don’t care about our school environment.20 students think that the people who litter just want to make other syndicates area of care messy.17 students think that we should put up posters around the school to convince students to put their rubbish in the bin.89 students think the teachers should give the people who litter a detention. Why do you think students are littering?
Too lazy to go to the bin
165
They don’t care about our school environment
19
They are just trying to make other syndicates messy
20
How do you think we can solve this?
We need to get more rubbish bins for the school
109
We should use posters to encourage students not to litter
17
We should give students who litter a detention
89
Discussion: It wasn’t surprising that students thought that we needed more bins around the school to help stop other students from disposing of their rubbish in places other than the rubbish bins around the school environment. Our predicted outcome occurred which was that fewer students would most probably vote that students are littering because they are too lazy to go to a bin and that to solve the problem we need to get more bins around the school. The results were confusing for our question, students are littering because they are trying to make other syndicates areas of care messy because there were only 20 students who voted for this particular out come. A majority of students at Fairfield Intermediate voted that Fairfield Intermediate School should get more rubbish bins around the schools environment to stop or at least help stop students littering. 89 students from Fairfield Intermediate voted that students who litter should be given a detention by the duty teachers. Our group thinks that if getting more bins around the school and if there are still students littering duty teachers that see the students littering will give them a detention.
Angel's statistical investigation
Statistics Investigation :Litter coming from the canteen
Kirsten, Shannon, and Angel
Introduction: This statistical investigation is investigating why students from our school think other residents of our school are littering and how they think we can solve this problem. Our group thinks that the outcome of our investigation, the results could be that students are too lazy to go to a bin and to solve this students will most likely vote that more bins are needed for resolving the problem though we still think this may not completely make the problem go away and there will always be some students who will keep on littering. Problem: Litter, in our school students are throwing a lot of rubbish into/ onto places other than the blue rubbish bins that are placed around the school. Kirsten, Shannon, and Angel are going to investigate what percentage of rubbish has come from the canteen and what percentage of rubbish is coming from student’s lunch boxes.
Participants involved in our investigation:
Participants involved are random canteen purchasers and a Bio-lingual class, a main stream class, and Room 19.
Materials: To record the data for the investigation our group needs to use a pen and paper to record data, internet access to present the data and also the investigation needs participants to ask questions to ensure that we get the right data.
Procedure: To fulfil this investigation you need to decide on when the survey will take place and ask all the bio-lingual classes, mainstream, and all the laptop class teachers if you can survey their class. Aim to survey at least 6 classes. To survey a class, firstly state the title and say what the survey is about. Then call out what their options are, and after they know what their options are, ask them to vote once for each, question / subject. Thank the class that you hosted and leave. Transfer the results into tally chart after you have surveyed all the classes and then discuss what graphs to use to present your results. Present data in graphs and end with a discussion column.
Hypothesis: We think we need more rubbish bins around the school because, students cannot be bothered walking to a rubbish bin. Questions: ·
Why do you think people are littering ,
· Too lazy to go to a bin ·
Don’t care about our school environment ·
Are trying to make other syndicates areas of care messy ·
How do you think we can solve this,
· Bring more rubbish bins in to the school · Use posters to encourage people to put their rubbish in the bin · Give the students who litter after school detention
Results: 165 students voted that residents from our school are too lazy to go to the bins and 109 voted that how we could solve this are to get more rubbish bins around the school. 19 students think that they the students that litter don’t care about our school environment. 20 students think that the people who litter just want to make other syndicates area of care messy. 17 students think that we should put up posters around the school to convince students to put their rubbish in the bin. 89 students think the teachers should give the people who litter a detention.
Why do you think students are littering?