sustainability investigation

I wanted to know how much rubbish was around the school so I found out 

First, I did the T block around the perimeter of T block there were 18 bits of rubbish, nothing too exciting. 

Secondly, I did R block and I found 17 bits of rubbish around this time I thought I was seeing a trend with the numbers but when it came to M block there was a substantial difference between the others. 

Thirdly I did M block and M Block came in at just 13 pieces of rubbish surprisingly as I thought that the M Block would have the most rubbish out of the lot. 

After that, I went to the gym and though I found some rubbish around the place there was an abundance in the surrounding bushes and area the gym came in at 17 bit of rubbish.

Next, I went around the field and had a look I found that around the start of the field that’s near to the buildings T, R, and M, I found near here a lot of the 57! Bits of the rubbish that lay scattered in the ground but an I moved more out on to the field I found that the number of bits of rubbish started to decree a lot and I found the further I went in the field the less and less rubbish I found.  In the end, the field had 57 bits of rubbish the highest of them all. 

Lastly, as for the caf, I thought that I would find more rubbish but I didn’t and I think that’s just because of the abundance of bins in the immediate vicinity so it would be hard to find an excuse for littering.  The caf area came in a low 10 bits of rubbish 

Overall around the school, I found 164 bits of rubbish in just the areas I looked at. I feel that the littering problem could have been avoided by putting more colourfully coloured bins to attract peoples attention so they know that there’s a bin nearby to put your rubbish in. Through my investigation, I have found that areas used a lot at intervals or lunches to counteract this we could put more rubbish bins in these areas.  

 

Sustainability Investigation

The Investigation assignment draws together your Mathematics learning but having you perform a Statistical Inquiry on a Sustainability topic.

Some ideas of topics

• Which part of the school has the most rubbish on the ground

• Recycling - Are we recycling properly?

• What is 9 Mohua doing to help reduce, reuse and recycle?

Problem & Plan: which part of the school has the most rubbish on the ground

Identify a Sustainability topic you can investigate

Plan out how you will collect data.  I will walk around the school and count the rubbish on the ground.

Data Collection:

Collect your data. Near cafe 10, mohua 13, t block 18, r block 17, playground 32, gym 17, field 57. 

Note any issues with accuracy. Some rubbish may blow away and is it still counted?

When rubbish is counted 

Table/ Tally chart

 

Analysis & Conclusion:

1x graph - either line, pie, or bar