Web-Based Project and Key Skills Work.

Pupils in England and Wales are increasingly being asked to undertake investigative-type work, be it the new compulsory projects in data handling for GCSE Mathematics (age 14-16) (see Browne 2002) or the Key Skills topic application of number. This article shows how teachers can generate realistic project scenarios using real data and produce indicative model solutions from the same data. The projects range from simple presentational problems for data,through hypothesis testing to complex modelling scenarios.