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

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Curriculum content descriptions

Calculate and interpret the mean and standard deviation of data and use these to compare data sets (ACMSP278)

Elaborations
  • using the standard deviation to describe the spread of a set of data
  • using the mean and standard deviation to compare numerical data sets
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Standard deviation,  Mean,  Sampling (Statistics)

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