Liz Gibson

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Crime data solutions for the classroom

• Liz Gibson
• Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical
  Education

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Outline

• Brief background
• Resources
• How safe is your area?
• Crime Scene Evidence
• Access

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QCA-RSS Centre Review outcomes

• Recommended that statistics and handling data
  remain in the mathematics curriculum
• Draw on real contexts and problems
• More support/CPD

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Resources

• Disseminated through the web
• Delivered using PowerPoint
• Supported with pupil worksheets, datasets and
  printable downloads
• Teachers supported with online guidance

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Outcomes Format of the resources

• Produce in PowerPoint
• Presented in a uniform format
• Colour coding
• Map of the overall cycle
• Deliverable via paper and multimedia

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PSA
Plan
Collect
Process
Discuss
The Problem Solving Approach
Plan
Discuss
Collect
Process
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PSA
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Collect
Process
Discuss
The Problem Solving Approach
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Discuss
Collect
Process
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PSA
Plan
Collect
Process
Discuss
The Problem Solving Approach
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Discuss
Collect
Process
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PSA
Plan
Collect
Process
Discuss
The Problem Solving Approach
Plan
Discuss
Collect
You are now here.
Process
Have you got all the evidence you want?
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Material Development

• Eight resources
• How safe is your area?
• Wheres worst?
• Virtual Reality Gloves
• Scene of crime evidence
• World Population
• How Old is your Height?
• Whats in your Bowl?
• How far? How fast? How high?

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Start screen
Plan
Collect
Process
Discuss
How safe is the area you live in?
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Prepared datasets

• Data downloadable as csv or pdf
• Extend the investigation
• Why is crime higher in an a particular area?
• What else do we know about the population?
• Do high crime areas have anything in common?
• Perceptions compared with crime rates
• Introduction to crime data

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Crime Scene Evidence

• Considers variability of data through the use of
  a crime scene

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Initial problem
Collect
Process
Discuss
Plan
Crime Scene Evidence
29cm
Police thought that the footprint was not that
useful.
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Crime Scene Evidence

• Supporting data available through CensusAtSchool
• Based on a resource from CensusAtSchool New
  Zealand

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Crime data solutions for the classroom

• Liz Gibson
• Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical
  Education