ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS PROJECT WORK FORM 5 2020

Achieving excellent results in Malaysia Certificate of Education Examination is the dream of

all students, parents, teachers and community. To achieve this dream, every individual should
be skilled in data analysis.

It was the duty of the secretary of the examination to obtain marks for each subject to
determine the average grade of a subject and school average grade which shows the school
academic performance. A systematic presentation of data will facilitate the work of the next
plan to compare the steps to be taken to keep the school academic performance.

Part 1:
1. Discuss the importance of data analysis in everyday life and give relevant examples.
2. Describe in detail the types of measure of central tendency and of measure of
dispersion.

Part 2:
1. Get mathematics first test scores of your class from the class teacher. Attach the test
scores.
2. Construct a frequency table for the data that was collected using the same size class
interval.
Make sure your table consist of at least five class intervals.

a) Instead, the table is set up, calculate

(i) the mean
(ii) the mode
(iii) the median
by using at least two methods of solution.

b) From your results, what kind of measure of central tendency best to represent
your class mathematics performance scores and explain why.

Part 3:
Measure of dispersion of data is the method to show the deviation from the mean of data.
From the table that has been built, calculate
(i) the inter-quartile range
(ii) the standard deviation

Explain the advantages of using standard deviation as compared with inter-quartile range in
representing the data.
Part 4:
a) Before this you are required to obtain mathematics First Test marks for your own class.
With the help of your class teacher, find out for mathematics scores in First Trial
examination for Form 5 in your school from School Examination Secretary. Attach the
trial examination marks.

b) From the information obtained, calculate

(i) the mean
(ii) the mode
(iii) the median
(iv) the inter-quartile range
(v) the standard deviation

Make a comparison of the data analysis for First Test with First Trial Examination.

Further Exploration:
Identify your friends who managed to get the high score and be successful in increasing good
performance in the First Test and First Trial Examination.

Interview your partner about learning strategies in pursuit of excellence.

Generate a conclusion about the mathematics performance of your school and write
reflections and values that you obtained in the course of this Additional Mathematics Project
Work.