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

Curriculum content descriptions

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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