Teaching Activity
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What brands do we trust?Grade: 7/8 Stage: 9/10/11with emphasis on: Maths Concepts: Surveys and samples Context: Society Critical Numeracy: De-coding, Meaning-making, Using, Analysing Date of Article: 13/06/09, pg 3 Printer version of article Student Worksheet Student Worksheet Answers |
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Orienting Questions
What brands of product do you trust and why? What criteria would you use in deciding what food brands you trust? What pharmacy brands? What airline? What TV channel? What is it about a brand that creates trust? |
De-coding and Meaning-making
The worksheet is intended to help students work through the methodology used by the company that carried out the survey for Reader’s Digest.
Using and Analysing
The worksheet asks students to design their own survey about trust in brands (they might like to each choose a different product/service) and compare their results.
Classroom discussion could tease out how to write good survey questions, considering the dilemma of providing specific options for respondents to choose from versus open ended questions. How reliable do the students think the Reader's Digest survey was and how could they improve it?
Possible Activities: Students might like to create posters of their findings for display for the rest of the school - the brands that influence us and why. They could consider using brand images and slogans along with key findings, graphs and their methodology.
Debriefing
What did you learn? How has your thinking on this topic changed? What new maths skills have you developed? What thinking strategies have you found useful?
What investigation would you like to consider now?
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