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

Curriculum content descriptions

Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in illustrating data features including variability (ACMSP097)

Elaborations
  • interpreting data representations in the media and other forums in which symbols represent more than one data value
  • suggesting questions that can be answered by a given data display and using the display to answer questions
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Data representation

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