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

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Construct and interpret box plots and use them to compare data sets (ACMSP249)

Elaborations
  • understanding that box plots are an efficient and common way of representing and summarising data and can facilitate comparisons between data sets
  • using parallel box plots to compare data about the age distribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with that of the Australian population as a whole
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Data analysis,  Box plots

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    Australian Historical Population Statistics to 2014 - dataset

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    The dataset provides statistics about the population of Australia in terms of age and sex from 1901 to 2014. It is made available by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The dataset is in MS Excel format.

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    TIMES Module 8: Statistics and Probability: data investigation and interpretation, year 10 - teacher guide

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    This is a 29-page guide for teachers. Box plots are introduced as another graphical tool and are used for comparisons of data. Scatter plots are used to explore relationships between quantitative (usually continuous) variables.

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    Australia's population: countries of birth - dataset

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    The dataset provides statistics about the estimated resident population, median age and sex ratio by countries of birth for the latest year of available data. It is periodically updated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The dataset is included in the list of related datasets on the page in MS Excel format.

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    Life expectancy PowerPoint

    • TLF-IDM012539

    This teacher resource is a PowerPoint presentation designed to address common student misunderstandings about life expectancy. It emphasises that life expectancy is an average, that most people live for much longer or shorter than their life expectancy and that, when life expectancy is low, it is mostly because of a very ...

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    Farm Diaries: producer video

    • TLF-IDM019387

    This is a video about pig production at the Tintinara property of the Mount Boothby Pastoral Company in South Australia. Pigs at various stages are shown, including nursing piglets, weaned piglets weighing between 7 and 10k, and pigs close to a live weight of 100k. Pig producer Alastair Johnson gives statistics about the ...

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    Determining the probability of a good day for sowing cotton

    • TLF-IDM021282

    This activity is a series of three related tasks that support the use of spreadsheets (Excel), Venn diagrams and two-way tables to develop an understanding of conditional probability when used to determine the probability of a farmer being able to sow a cotton crop. The activity is, based on real historical soil and air ...

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