Category Archives: Handling Data

GDP ranking by country

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 13/12/2018

I recently discovered the video above that ranks the top ten countries by GDP from 1960 to 2017. It is quite mesmeric watching it (I am reminded of the great Hans Rosling and how he presented data) and got me wondering: is it Economics, History or Statistics?  (It is, of course, all three) And, as […]

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A tough question

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 09/12/2018

A student asked me a difficult question the other day. I’m normally pretty confident with my subject knowledge, and am rarely stumped when quizzed out of the blue. Sometimes a tricky question from Further Maths, or a more esoteric A level problem may leave me scratching my head for a minute or two. Worst case […]

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Deaths due to terrorism in the UK

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 26/08/2018

I came across the graph above and I was immediately struck by the stories it tells by forcing you, the reader, to ask the obvious questions. Clearly something happened in the 1990’s. The peace process was begun in Northern Ireland, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Surely this graph alone is enough to […]

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Were the refs more lenient on the hosts in Russia 2018?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 03/08/2018

We may be on the eve of the new domestic football season, but before we consign the World Cup, Russia 2018, to history, I just want to share this plot with you. It compares the fouls committed per game by a team, and the number of yellow cards received. By eye, there does appear to […]

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Saints or Sinners?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 19/07/2018

The football may be over, but the fun never stops! There is plenty of data on the recent Russia 2018 World Cup to be found on the Official Fifa site Using their statistics, I have compared the number of fouls committed versus the number of fouls suffered and plotted the scatter graph above.  Fouls committed […]

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