Welcome to this collection of A Level Statistics tasks;
I hope that you will find something here that you would like to try out and that your students will enjoy.
There is no explicit overarching philosophy behind the collection -
I am not on some crusade to get statistics taught a certain way.
I do, however, have the belief that people learn best when they are active,
and then reflective, before finally systematising what they have learnt.
These tasks also include the idea that we all love to be faced with a puzzle.

Everyone who writes tasks for a maths classroom has a style; what is mine?
I would say that although I love teaching statistics, I am a pure mathematician first and a statistician second,
and that means that there is definitely a 'pure maths' feel to some of these tasks.
I have sadly not thus far in my career worked as a professional statistician;
I hope that those of you that have will forgive any 'unworldliness' in my approach.

All of the activities here have been trialled (and hopefully later improved) in my own classroom.
I find that what I need in my S1 and S2 lessons is fairly short activities
that are versatile enough to come anywhere in a lesson,
and which shed light on a syllabus topic in a fun way that I can later reinforce.
The good news is (I hope you will agree with me) that the S1 and S2 modules, certainly with MEI,
are not so packed with syllabus material that it becomes hard to justify using tasks like these.

My hope is that in this rag-bag that I present you with here,
you will find at least some tasks that you warm to,
and which you can customise for your own ends.
I would be delighted to learn how you get on with using them.

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