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Primary activity
How people spend their time
Curriculum links
Statistics level 3
Within a range of meaningful contexts, students should be able to:
Use their own language to talk about the distinctive features, such as outliers and clusters in their own and others’ data displays.
Make sensible statements about an assertion on the basis of the evidence of a statistical investigation.
Background
The learning outcomes are:
- Read and retrieve information from a bar graph.
- Make inferences from a bar graph.
- Collect relevant data.
- Calculate averages.
Answers and notes
The questions and answers for this activity use information published in the Time Use - Time for Culture report.
- 11 minutes.
- Just under 2 ½ hours.
- 58 minutes.
- Over 2 ½ hours.
- No – all age groups watch more television.
- It probably would not have been the same 30 years ago as there were fewer channels on television, fewer televisions in households, no videos etc.
- Because when people retire they have more time to read or because this group didn’t grow up watching television as children.(Answers may vary).
- Because when people have paid jobs and a household to run they may not have as much time to watch television. (Answers may vary).
9-11. Results will vary. You could have students complete this for a homework activity – or compare students’ averages with teachers’ averages. Note; either the mean or the median is an acceptable
calculation for the average.
- A pie chart situated in a clock face is one original idea for presentation.
- It is easier to be doing something else while listening to music, as it doesn’t occupy you as much as reading or television does. Many people automatically listen to music when doing another activity.
- Before music videos, music lovers may have spent more time listening to music as a primary activity. Now music can be both aural and visual, people might spend less time just listening to music.
- Encourage students to collect data comparing time girls vs boys spend doing each activity.
- It is easier to be doing something else while listening to music, as it doesn’t occupy you as much as reading or television does. Many people automatically listen to music when doing another activity.
- Before music videos, music lovers may have spent more time listening to music as a primary activity. Now music can be both aural and visual, people might spend less time just listening to music.
- Encourage students to collect data comparing time girls and boys spend doing each activity.
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