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Rain or shine

This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Hypothesis testing. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.

In this activity students use sunshine and rainfall data to carry out significance tests on the difference between sample means.  As part of this activity students use either a calculator or a spreadsheet to calculate mean and standard deviation values.

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