Maths CAS ideas
Maths CAS ideas: community statistics
Collect and share numbers that help your school or neighbourhood see something clearly: traffic outside the gate, food waste in the canteen, the cost of a weekly shop. The aim is to inform action, not just to make a chart.
Community statistics (8 ideas)
- Traffic count for road safety outside schoolServiceProject-ready
- Measure and reduce canteen food wasteServiceProject-ready
- Track the cost of a healthy weekly shopService
- Help the school library understand its usersService
- Accessibility audit of school routesServiceProject-ready
- How reliable is the local bus?Service
- Energy use in school: measure, change, measureServiceProject-ready
- Records and planning for a community gardenActivityServiceProject-ready
Need the statistics? The statistics guide (written for the IA) explains tests and charts step by step. Keep CAS and your IA separate.
Frequently asked questions
Do community statistics count for CAS?
They can. Decide who will act on your findings at the start, and plan to hand the results to them in a form they can use. Your CAS coordinator decides what counts at your school.
Can I use one of these ideas as it is?
Use it as a starting point. Shape it around a real need or interest at your school or in your community, plan it with others where you can, and agree it with your CAS coordinator before you start.
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