Mathematics / Year 10 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Use scatter plots to investigate and comment on relationships between two numerical variables (ACMSP251)

Elaborations
  • using authentic data to construct scatter plots, make comparisons and draw conclusions
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Data analysis,  Scatter plots

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