| Children from a number of primary schools in Anguilla turned up at the Teachers’ Resource Centre on Tuesday this week for a series of fun day activities as part of the observance of Statistics Week. |
Anguilla’s Chief Statistician, Lori-Rae Alleyne-Franklin, told The Anguillian that the Statistics Week activities were also associated with Caribbean Statistics Day on Thursday, October 14.
“We are having a fun day with the students to get them involved in statistics and to understand the impacts of the broad spectrum,” she said. “Two weeks before, they were assigned to a mapping exercise. What we find coming out of the census exercise is a challenge for persons to understand how to do mapping. We thought if we got the young children involved in mapping, at an early age, there would be candidates for enumerators in the future.”
Asked to explain the mapping exercise, Mrs. Alleyne-Franklin replied: “When I say mapping, we designed a picture of the area around their schools and identified six or seven buildings. The children had to identify the buildings and determine whether or not each structure was a business, residence or a Government building.
“Following the mapping work, the children were tasked to use their skills to find items hidden around the Teachers’ Resource Centre and complete a check list of them, all geared towards statistics. We invited children in grades four to six in the primary schools as we thought that was the age group we could work with.” On Monday, there was a session with personnel from the Ministry of Education, andd the Department of Youth and Culture and Sports. “We went through with them the importance of statistics, the role of administrative data, as well as look at a framework for statistics in each area,” the Chief Statistician reported. |
