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'Phone Calls' Poisson Distribution

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Last updated 25 March 2013, created 08 July 2010, viewed 511

Whole class probability distribution task, suitable for KS5. The idea here is to explore what happens if you add two independent Poisson distributions. Autograph's statistics abilities will be a big help here. Great opportunity to use ICT in the maths classroom. This could be explored by the whole class together on the big screen.

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    Phone Calls spreadsheet.xls (1mb, Excel document)
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This is a nice rich text on the topic of the poisson distribution. Based on the idea of the number of phone calls made to an office, the excel document allows you to change the data to show how it affects the distribution graphs on the next sheet. A very useful functional task for a post 16 class learning poisson.

from Gareth1512, 04 January 2012 		(report comment) 4 out of 5
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