Mathematics / Year 4 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values (ACMSP096)

Elaborations
  • exploring ways of presenting data and showing the results of investigations
  • investigating data displays using many-to-one correspondence
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Tables (Data),  Picture graphs,  Bar charts

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