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Curriculum content descriptions

acquire data for categorical variables through surveys, observation, experiment and using digital tools; sort data into relevant categories and display data using lists and tables (AC9M2ST01)

Elaborations
  • posing a question of interest about favourite things; for example, asking classmates what are their favourite types of fruit, football teams, days of the week, and recording responses using a table; using counting strategies to determine the number of different responses and the most popular and least popular responses
  • investigating questions, such as “How much rubbish is really rubbish?” by gathering data about objects in categories; for example, throw away, recycle and reuse; deciding whether the data answers the question
  • using familiar software or generative artificial intelligence tools, to construct a survey to collect class data, sorting and interpreting responses, and considering the questions asked and whether they need to be modified to reuse the survey
  • observing events and using the observations to design a table or list to record data; for example, observing students arriving at school prior to deciding the appropriate data categories for investigating the different ways students get to school
  • exploring the ways First Nations Australians observe, collect, sort and record data
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Categorical data,  Tables (Data),  Information and communication technologies,  Data collection,  Lists,  Observations (Data)

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