Digdata - Classroom Resources

Digdata

From fashion to finance, sport to social media, travel to telecoms data is used every day to make informed business decisions.

Join us at Digdata, where we’re passionate about developing problem solving, data literacy and story-telling skills to prepare the next generation for the evolving world of work.

A fun and innovative virtual work experience offering for students across secondary and tertiary education that can be delivered online, in the classroom and onsite at our data days.

 

Classroom resources

Our resources align with the maths curriculum with each resource being associated to a new maths skill but can be delivered by any subject teacher or in any careers session too and will help you meet the Gatsby Benchmarks. All students receive certification on completion of each resource.

 

Who should turn on the Christmas lights? Students get to…Calculate and interpret averages. Learn how to calculate averages using a spreadsheet and gain virtual work experience with CACI!

Where should we advertise our sunglasses event? Students get to…Learn about types of sampling and survey questions. Interpret pie charts, box plots and scatter graphs. Learn how to filter data and draw scatter graphs using spreadsheets. Gain virtual work experience with CACI!

How can we analyse customers’ spending habits? Students get to…Learn about finance and budgeting, percentages, and interpreting line graphs. Learn how to filter data and enter formula using spreadsheets. Gain virtual work experience with Capital One!

How should we spend our PlayStation marketing budget? Students get to...Learn importance of sample size, comparing distributions and sharing in a ratio. Learn how to create a pivot table using spreadsheets. Gain virtual work experience with Experian.

Has the advert been successful? Students get to…calculate percentage change, interpret results, calculate the radius of a circle from a given area and draw a circle with a pair of compasses. Learn how to filter data and about misleading infographics. Gain virtual work experience with Facebook!

 

Top tips

Click here to simply create an account to access our free KS3 and KS4 classroom resources.

Sections

Live online career challenges

These 45-minute live briefing sessions are hosted on Teams and invite your students to meet the Unilever team to find out how they can use data to solve their career challenges. All students register individually to attend and are sent all the resources required to complete this bitesize project after this briefing session. They can work individually, in a pair or as a group. All submitted works are awarded a virtual work experience certificate.

Library resource 

All our partner resources post live events are placed in our library resource giving students the opportunity to gain virtual work experience with the following companies: BT, CACI, Capital One, Experian, Facebook, GSK, ITV, Lloyds banking group, Shell, Omnicom Media Group & Rapp.

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