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Mathematics / Year 5 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMSP119)

Elaborations
  • identifying the best methods of presenting data to illustrate the results of investigations and justifying the choice of representations
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Data representation

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