To support their learning of Statistics in Mathematics, our Year 7 students were provided with a FitBit activity tracker from BioLab. Students wore their tracker for most of the school day and BioLab provided each student with a personalised summary of their activity data which included the number of steps taken and their heart rate. Students were then required to interpret their data using the knowledge and skills they had learned throughout the topic of statistics and collated their findings into a poster.

This activity provided students with the opportunity to reflect on how data can be used to represent change over time, such as the change in steps or heart rate during the day. Students were able to identify their most active time of day from reading the information presented in the line graphs and could interpret the visual representation of data in the pie graph to understand what proportion of their time was spent active or inactive. Understanding and interpreting data is an important skill that we help students to develop as we prepare students for life (Vitae Nos Parat). Thank you to Paige McQueen, Marli Vardy and Ivory Sansom for sharing their FitBit posters and thank you to BioLab for providing the activity trackers. Engaging activities such as these develop strong numeracy skills and support our students in understanding the many ways in which mathematics can be used outside of the classroom.