Baby Names of Ireland
Added: 09 Jul 2020
Contributor:
CSO Ireland
Resource type:
Simulation
The Central Statistics Office online Data Visualisation Tool enables students to search how popular Irish baby names were/are in any given year in Ireland from 1964 to present. Using this tool students can see the popularity of their own name, or the names of their family, friends etc.
Maths teacher, James Carroll, has created some lesson activities to accompany the online CSO Data Visualisation Tool;
- Searching for Your Name in the Year of Your Birth
- Calculating the Total Births in Your Gender in the Year of Your Birth
- Calculating what % of Births in the Year You Were Born Shared Your Name
- Tracking the Popularity of Your Name
How it maps to the curriculum
- JC
- Mathematics
Strand: 2. Numbers
Strand unit: 4. Analysing Numerical Patterns
Suggestions for use: Links to the Number and Statistics Strands in the JC specification with tasks on percentages and interpreting trends on graphs. Tasks 2 and 3 of the activity make use of spreadsheets (Excel) to sum a large set of data. As the tasks will be specific to the user of the activity sheet no sample solutions are presented at the end, rather guided examples are given throughout the activity.
Strand: 5. Statistics and Probability
Strand unit: 3. Statistical Investigations
- 5-6
- Mathematics
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Decimals & Percentages
