Mathematics / Year 5 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMSP119)

Elaborations
  • identifying the best methods of presenting data to illustrate the results of investigations and justifying the choice of representations
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Data representation

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reSolve: Authentic Problems: Reaction Time

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reSolve: Data - Making decisions

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Syllabus bites – dot plots and two-way tables

A webpage with information and useful links related to dot plots and two-way tables

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reSolve: Statistics: Time to play

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Flight of the osprey infographic

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Osprey bird dimensions

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Osprey altitude data

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Osprey position and location

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Osprey migration data

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First steps in mathematics: Chance and data

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Biosecurity

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Representing images using binary: totems

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Osprey ranking threats

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reSolve: Lamingtons

This sequence of three lessons explores the mathematical idea that fractions represent division. In the first lesson, students are invited to solve a problem involving fair sharing of different plates of lamingtons. Students explore how the denominator represents how many shares and the numerator represents the number being ...

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Finding Farms

This is a teacher resource containing a series of inquiry teaching sequences about life on farms in Australia. It contains material to assist the planning, implementing and assessing a study of five primary industry sectors involved in food and fibre production. The tasks in this resource are based around illustrated maps ...

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For the Juniors: Drawing a floor plan

How do we know what a house will look like before it is built? Discover how house plans work by looking at the design of a house that Hugo's family is going to build. See how a floor plan shows the room layout. See drawings of what the house will look like from different views.

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Waste and materials – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

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Sustainable transport – sustainability action process (Years 3–6)

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MathXplosion, Ep 33: On the grid

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