Urban waste control
Personajes:
Tema: Data organization and analysis. Inference
Competencias
Competencia Matemática, en ciencia, tecnología e ingeniería
Competencia Personal, social y de aprender a aprender
Competencia en conciencia y expresiones culturales
Materias y cursos por Sistema Educativo
España > Matemáticas > 3º ESO > Sentido estocástico
España > Matemáticas > 3º ESO > Sentido socioafectivo
España > Matemáticas > 4º(A) ESO > Sentido estocástico
España > Matemáticas > 4º(A) ESO > Sentido socioafectivo
España > Matemáticas > 4º(B) ESO > Sentido estocástico
España > Matemáticas > 4º(B) ESO > Sentido socioafectivo
Enunciado
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is mostly known because of her work as a nurse during the Crimean War and her contribution to the reform in sanitary conditions at military hospitals. She is considered the mother of modern nursing and the creator of the first conceptual model of nursing. From a very young age she stood out in mathematics, and later on she applied her knowledge on statistics to epidemiology and to health statistics. She was the first woman to be admitted at the British Royal Statistical Society, and she was an honorary member of the American Statistical Association.
Here is a statistics problem that concerns all citizens.
The following table shows the results of the first statistical study on the amount of urban waste generated annually by each autonomous community in Spain conducted by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE). Read and interpret the data on the table and answer the following questions:
|
Autonomous community |
Urban wast kg/inhabitant/year |
| Andalusia | 499 |
| Aragon | 504 |
| Asturias | 517 |
| Balearic Islands | 767 |
| Canary Islands | 691 |
| Cantabria | 371 |
| Castile-La Mancha | 415 |
| Castile and León | 381 |
| Catalonia | 481 |
| Extremadura | 457 |
| Galicia | 346 |
| Community of Madrid | 475 |
| Region of Murcia | 485 |
| Navarre | 431 |
| Basque Country | 383 |
| La Rioja | 431 |
| Valencian Community | 462 |
“El País, July 13th, 2000”
Please answer the following questions:
- Draw a bar chart and a pie chart to represent the data on the table. Choose which one best illustrates the situation.
- What are the top three autonomous communities whose inhabitants generate the most waste? What are the three that generate the least?
- If we wanted to know the amount of waste generated in total in each autonomous community, what information would we need?
- What is the average kg of waste that each Spanish person generates?
- If there were 40.57 million Spanish citizens in 2000, what was the approximate amount of urban waste generated in Spain that year?
Observaciones y contexto
- She can be studied in applied mathematics. Teachers can decide, depending on the group, if questions 4 and 5 will be completed.
- Florence Nightingale is known for being a pioneer in modern medicine and for being a mathematician. She stood out in statistics, creating pie charts and applying descriptive statistics. She also worked as a writer, politician and teacher.
- She was contemporary with other important female mathematicians: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), pioneer in computer language; Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916), who studied mostly geometry; Sofya Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), devoted to mathematical analysis and differential equations; Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931), who worked on algebra and geometry and fought for the inclusion of women in universities; Mary Somerville (1780-1872), considered to be "the queen of 19th century science"; and Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), first woman to be a professional astronomer in the United States.
- She was an inspiration to other women that later on worked on statistics and probability, like Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972).
- Nightingale's work is also an important link in the study of English feminism. In some of her essays, like Cassandra, she complains about how women were considered incompetent and she demands a better education for them and the possibility to apply this education.
Descripción
We are going to analyse the contents of an information table from a newspaper and then draw a graphic representation to make the information more visual.