Economics and Business 7-10 / Year 7 / Skills / Interpreting and analysing

Curriculum content descriptions

interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues, trends and economic cause-and-effect relationships (AC9HE7S03)

Elaborations
  • interpreting information to identify economic and business issues; for example, inferring the effect of growth in shopping online on the number of customers entering stores
  • interpreting multi-variable data by using interactive digital tools to identify trends and to answer questions such as “For a 10-year period, to what extent has the number of people in casual work changed?”
  • interpreting visual displays of multi-variable data to identify a cause-and-effect relationship within an economic and business issue, such as the relationship between income earned by an individual and levels of saving and spending
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Causality,  Data analysis,  Trend analysis,  Reasoning

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Trade and Investment at a Glance

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Australia's Trade through Time

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