Sample Applications and Interpretations IA Papers
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Sample Math Studies IA Papers (prior to 2021 Assessments)
Examples 1,2,5,7,8,11,13,14 are stats based. Excel Tutorial Link
Great website for Excel basics. Check out the graphing and arithmetic sections as well. More Excel Guides
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Useful Online Math Tools/Calculators
Box and Whisker Plots Pearson's Correlation Calculator (Check whether data has a correlation; r > |0.5|) Chi-Squared Calculator
Spearman's Rank Correlation Calculator t-test Calculator Sites for gathering secondary data
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Resources for collecting data:
Survey Monkey Need people to take your survey? Consider Worldwide IB Math Classroom FB Group Extra Math Help
British International School, Phuket Neat, short videos on Math Studies topics. The website also contains other helpful info on the Internal Assessment. |
Secondary data sources:
World Data Sets Education
Health (heart disease, cancer)
Weather Economy (income by state, GDP by country)
U.S. Census Bureau (population, poverty, etc. ) U.S. Data on a variety of topics (student loans, vegetable prices, storm events, etc. ) Bureau of Labor Statistic (population, employment, jobs, wages, inflation, etc.) World Bank Transportation (accidents) United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT) World Health Oranization of the United Nations (disease and healthcare) Federal Government Statistics Data Zoo U.S. Census Bureau A to Z World population U.S. Population The Census at School. Go to the random data generator and you can download questionnaire results from students around the world. Olympic Database Guardian Datablog You will need to sign into Google to download the files. The World Bank has a huge data bank – you can search by country or by specific topic. Wolfram Alpha is a comprehensive math tools website. There are lots of data (on nutrition, education, sport, etc.) you can find by going to the examples link above. |