INTEGRATED MATHEMATICS INTERNAL

ASSESSMENT

Group Members
Joel Lyn
Leandre Byfield

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 Table of Contents
Title Page
Project title
Introduction
Research methodology
Organisation of data
Presentation of findings
Analysis of findings
Interpretation of results
Recommendations
Conclusions
Reference/Bibliography
Appendix

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 Project Title
To investigate if the distance that a student lives from school affects the time they arrive at
school.

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 Introduction
Rationale
Since the start of the school year many York castle high school student have been
arriving at school rather late. When asked the reason for their lateness the majority of
responses were that they lived far away from school. The relevance of this
investigation is to find out if the distance that a student lives has any direct effect on
the time students arrive at school. This investigation is also relevant as it will give rest
to the many queries that teachers have as to why students are getting to school late.

Problem objectives
● What are the distances that students live from school?
● What time do the students arrive at school?
● What I the average speed that vehicles move while carrying the students?
● How often do the vehicles stop and if they do stop, for how long?

This research is an applied research and the method of research is a quantitative method as
the data collected will be numeric.

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 Research Methodology
The researchers chose a non-experimental research design; a survey research design was
chosen because it best serves to answer the questions of the study. The survey research is one
in which a group of selected individuals are studied who are considered to be representative
of the entire group.

Limitations of study
● Student may not have felt encouraged to provide accurate honest answers to
the questionnaire which would have caused possibly invalid data to be
collected.
● The various distances of communities provided by the respondents may have
not been fully accurate and therefore there would be slight errors in the data
and the calculations.
● The time that students get to school were not all known which created
challenges.

Sampling process
The area of interest for this survey was the York castle high school students, which are
the target population. The surveyor chose this group as the target population because
it is easily accessible and so the questionnaires were easily administered and
collected.
The respondents or the area from which the respondents were chosen are students
from grades (7) seven up to grade (11) eleven.

The sampling selection method used to select the respondents was the random or
probability sampling method. This method was used because it gives everyone an
equal chance of being selected. During this process, each student’s name was written
on a paper and placed in a bag and then two names were blindly chosen from the bag.
This method was repeated for each grade level. At the end of selecting the sample
there were (10) ten respondents available.

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Instrument design
The particular type of research instrument that was used to collect data from the
respondents was a questionnaire as I was best suited for this survey because responses
could be analysed with quantitative methods by aligning numerical values. In
comparison to other methods such as an interview which is mostly used to collect
qualitative data; case study which is used to develop a particular person o situation
over a period of time and all the other methods such as tests, scales, measures and
observations which are unreliable in a survey research.

Questionnaire

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 1. What is your gender?
a) male b) female

2. What grade are you in?

a)7
b)8
c)9
d)10
e)11

3. Where do you travel from to get to school?

a) Ocho Rios
b) – browns town
c) St Ann’s bay -browns town
d) Run away bay – browns town
e) Discovery bay – browns town
Other_____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________

4. What time do you arrive at school?

_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

5. What time do you leave out for school?

_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

6. How do you travel to school?

a) Private bus
b) Taxi

7. What is the average speed at which the vehicles move while carrying you to
school?
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

8. Does the vehicle make any stops while carrying you to school?
a) Yes
b) No

9. If the answer to question 8 is yes, for how long and how many times?
e.g. Two times,3 minutes

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 _____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________

Data Management

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The survey was carried out over a two-day period from march 5-6. The data was also
collected over a two-day period from march 5-6 as the respondents completed the
questionnaires on spot and returned them to the surveyor. While collecting the data there were
no challenges at hand or experienced.
Respond Locati Time Time Mode of Avera Avera Distance Location
ents on of respond respond transporta ge ge s of
initial schoo ents get ents tion speed time between respond
l to leave for of vehicl places ents
school school vehicl e home
e stops
C Brow 8:30 6:50 taxi 60km 1min 40km Ocho
ns /h Rios
town
D Brow 8:15 7:00 taxi 50km 1min 40km Ocho
ns /h Rios
town

S Brow 8:50 7:00 taxi 60km 2min 13km Discove

ns /h ry bay
town

F Brow 8:10 7:00 private 50km 1min 30km St Ann’s

ns /h bay
town

S Brow 8:30 6:40 private 40km Half 14km Runawa

ns /h min y bay
town

M Brow 8:30 6:30 private 50km 1min 14km Runawa

ns /h y bay
town

B Brow 8:15 7:00 taxi 60km 1min 40km Ocho

ns /h Rios
town

L Brow 8:50 6:40 taxi 50km 2min 30km St Ann’s

ns /h bay

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 town

H Brow 8:30 7:30 private 50km 1min 30km St Ann’s

ns /h bay
town

T Brow 8:30 6:30 taxi 60km 1min 14km Runawa

ns /h y bay
town

Figure .1 showing the data collected from the respondents via the questionnaire.

The distances between the respondent’s home and Brownstown were found using the google
maps app. This was the medium used to transfer the items into numbers so that they could be
used in the calculations.
The various item responses acquired from the respondents were recorded in a table format as
seen above in figure .1. Items such as the time they leave school, distance lived from school,
community and means of transportation were all recorded in the table.
In addition to recording the data received from the questionnaire in the table, a backup data
recording was created and stored on a computer and a thumb drive, in addition to this the
recordings on the thumb drive was only accessible by a password which was the surveyor’s
data security method.

Presentation of data

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Figure .1 showing the locations of the respondent’s homes. (30%) stated ocho Rios, (10%)
stated st Ann’s bay, (10%) stated discovery bay and (30%) stated runaway bay.

Figure .2 showing the places where the respondents live. (30%) stated 8:00, (10%) stated
8:15, (20%) stated 7:50, (30%) stated 7:30 and (10%) stated 8:30.

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Figure .3 showing the time that the respondents leave out for school. (10%) stated 6:50,
(40%) stated 7:00, (20%) stated 6:40, (20%) stated 6:30 and (10%) stated 7:30.

Figure .4 showing the type of transportation that the respondents take to school. (60%) stated
taxi and the remaining (40%) stated private.

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Figure.5 showing the average speed that vehicles travel while carrying the respondents to
school. (40%) stated 60 km/h, (50%) states 50km/h and (10%) stated 40km/h.

Figure .6 showing the average time that the vehicles stop for while carrying respondents to
school. (70%) stated 1 minute, (20%) stated 2 minute and (10%) stated half of a minute

Analysis and interpretation

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 X values=40,40,13,30,14,14,40,30,30,14

Y values =30,15,50,10,30,30,15,50,30,30

The equation of the regression line is:

y = 43.49 − 0.547⋅x

The graph of the regression line is:

y = 43.49 - 0.547 x

Correlation coefficient (r): -0.5

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 Step 1: Find X⋅Y and X2 as it was done in the table below.
X Y X⋅Y X⋅X
40 30 1200 1600
40 15 600 1600
13 50 650 169
30 10 300 900
14 30 420 196
14 30 420 196
40 15 600 1600
30 50 1500 900
30 30 900 900
14 30 420 196
Step 2: Find the sum of every column:

∑X=265, ∑Y=290, ∑X⋅Y=7010, ∑X2=8257

Step 3: Use the following equations to find a and b:

ab=∑Y⋅∑X2−∑X⋅∑XYn⋅∑X2−

(∑X)2=290⋅8257−265⋅701010⋅8257−2652≈43.49=n⋅∑XY−∑X⋅∑Yn⋅∑X2−

(∑X)2=10⋅7010−265⋅29010⋅8257−(265)2≈−0.547

Step 4: Substitute a and b in regression equation formula

y y = a + b⋅x= 43.49 − 0.547⋅x

Variance

x x-m (x-m)^2
14 -12.5 156.25
14 -12.5 156.25

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 40 13.5 182.25
30 3.5 12.25
30 3.5 12.25
14 -12.5 156.25
40 13.5 182.25
40 13.5 182.25
13 -13.5 182.25
30 3.5 12.25

26.5 sum 1234.5

123.45

X values = 40,40,13,30,14,14,40,30,30,14

Mean=sum of x values divided by 10

Mean=26.5

Therefore, variance =11.11

The total of the x values was found as well as the mean was calculated, after the mean was

subtracted from the sum of the x values and the value squared. The squared value was then

divided by 10(the number of values) and the square root of the value found. This was how the

variance was found.

Central tendency

Mean= (Σ xi) / n
Therefore 40+40+13+30+14+14+40+30+30+14/10
=26.5

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Mode=40 and 14

Median=14+14+28
So 28/2=14

A small study has been conducted involving 10 school students to investigate the association

between the distance between home and school, measured in meters(m)and the time students

arrive at school, measured in minutes. We wish to estimate the association between distance

between home and school and time students arrive at school. In this example, time students

arrive at school is the dependent variable and the distance between home and school is the

independent variable. Thus y= Time students arrive at school and x= Distance between home

and school. The data are displayed in a scatter diagram in the figure above. Each point

represents an (x, y) pair (in this case the distance between home and school, measured in

meters(m)and the time students arrive at school, measured in minutes(min)). The scatter plot

shows a strong positive or direct association between distance between home and school and

the time students arrive at school. School students with shorter distance between home and

school are more likely to be reach school at an earlier time while school students with longer

distance between home and school are more likely to be reach school at a later time.

Recommendations
 The surveyors firmly recommend that the students, in order to solve

the lateness problem, should wake up earlier in the mornings so that

they can leave out earlier and as a result they can get to school before

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 8:00 am. For this to work, students, must also avoid idling on the road

and waiting for “favourite vehicles”.

 Students should persuade parents to let that travel with private buses in

order to prevent unnecessary turn offs and pickups that can cause

students to be late for school, which is proven to be done a lot by taxi

drivers.

Conclusion

According to the findings obtained from these statistics survey it can be concluded that the
distance that a student lives from school and the time they arrive at school has only a slight
correlation according to the correlation coefficient which was found to be -0.5 therefore, there
was a some positive correlation

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In essence, from this survey, it can be said that as the distance from school increases so does
the lateness by a slight amount.

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