Cristelgen R.

Abalo BSed Mathematics 2

MODULE 1

ACTIVITY 1:

Answer the following:

2. As a teacher in the future, justify the usefulness and the advantages of
statistics in education.
The usefulness and the advantages of statistics in education is that make
the work of the teacher easier. The statistics helps the teacher to measure the
student performance by using descriptive statistics. It can also identify the lack of
the student performance. The statistics is importance to the educator when
gathering data to the student performance so it helps to evaluate the teaching in
learning of student.

ACTIVITY 2:

Give an appropriate sample based on the described population.

DIRECT ANSWER:
1. Weight of all first-year female students in a class.
2. Popular teen singers in local music industry.
3. Daily newspaper circulated in 100 residents in the Philippines.
4. All area of davao city-residents who watch Eat Bulaga on TV.
5. The number of tardiness made by all P.E.teachers in a school.
6. Scores in all mathematics subject areas in the achievement test.
7. Waist measurements of male obese people.
8. Infant milk preferred by most teen’s mothers in Lala.
9. Favorite subject of all top students in the Division of Lanao del Norte.
10. Heights of all first-year male students in Manila.

ACTIVITY 3:

Determine whether the numbers obtained in the following variables are discrete
(D) or continuous (C).
1. D
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. D
 7. C
8. C
9. C
10. C

ACTIVITY 4:

Classify the types of data whether nominal (N), ordinal (O), interval (I) or ratio
(R).
ANSWER:
1. N
2. O
3. I
4. I
5. I
6. O
7. R
8. O
9. I
10. R

ACTIVITY 5:

Tell whether the following variables are qualitative (QL) or quantitative (QN).
1. QL
2. QN
3. QL
4. QN
5. QL
6. QN
7. QL
8. QL
9. QL
10. QN

Assessment
From the given variables, write QL if qualitative or QN if quantitative; D if discrete
or C if continuous; N if nominal, O if ordinal, I if interval or R if ratio, on the space
provided in the table.

QL / QN D/C N/O/I/R
1. Brand of soft drinks QN D N
2. Birth order of children in a family QN D O
3. Places in a beauty contest QN D O
4. Scores in an aptitude test QN C I
5. Speed of cars in kilometers per hour QN C I
6. Varieties of corn QL D N
7. Scores in an oratorical contest QN C I
8. Weight of children QN C R
9. Grades in English QN C I
10. Height of students QN C R