Chocs and Blocks Activity
Chocs and Blocks is an interactive activity investigating sampling and variability.
This site contains:
- Documentation for teachers - read this first
- Chocs and Blocks activity page. Note: This link does not have data recording enabled. If you want the data to be recorded to a Google sheet, use the Setup program below.
- Setup program
Further references
Sharon Gunn. (2011). Towards an understanding of statistical task design. Proceedings of Volcanic Delta 2011: The Eighth Southern Hemisphere Conference on Teaching and Learning Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics, Rotorua, New Zealand, 27 November - 2 December 2011, p.120 - 128
Sharon Gunn and Anthony Morphett. (2017). An interactive statistical sampling activity with chocolate. 2017 Mathematical Association of Victoria Annual Conference proceedings, p.25 - 30
Acknowledgements
Chocs and Blocks is based on an earlier activity by Professor Nye John and Dr David Whittaker from the University of Waikato at the end of the last century.
The Chocs and Blocks webpage was designed by Sharon Gunn and Anthony Morphett and developed by Learning Environments and Anthony Morphett, with financial support from the School of Mathematics and Statistics. An earlier Chocs and Blocks website was developed by Russell Jenkins. The Chocs and Blocks setup program was developed by Anthony Morphett. The documentation for teachers was written by Sharon Gunn and Anthony Morphett.