DIGGING : TOUR
Plot your own course through digging:
Have a look at the worksheets that are available in each of the four main areas. These vary in terms of topic and complexity. You might link your work to your own interests as well as your course requirements.
Meaning:
In meaning, there are:
- General worksheets looking at how to handle some key basics such as rounding-up numbers, significant figures and decimal places.
- More General worksheets whose focus includes Football Finance, Car Production and Population Studies in the UK.
- Inflation-specific worksheets examining the possible 'death' of inflation.
- A Tourism-related worksheet focusing on the impact of exchange rates.
Sourcing:
In Sourcing, there are three worksheets looking at the theme of sampling:
- One that gets you to try to estimate the mean value of life expectancies in a sample of countries.
- One on the UK Census, examining efforts to make this study more representative of the population.
- One that tests your ability to compare sample means.
Selecting:
In Selecting, there is:
- A worksheet investigating the part-takeover of Nissan by Renault.
- This includes links to other TimeWeb and Biz/ed resources.
Verifying:
In Verifying, there are worksheets that encourage you to check the accuracy of information. These include:
- an investigation into what we think of as our 'home' country.
- a look at a subtle pricing policy adopted by many businesses.
- claims that the 'boom-bust' era in the UK housing market is dead.
