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Mathematics / Year 3 / Statistics

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Curriculum content descriptions

conduct guided statistical investigations involving the collection, representation and interpretation of data for categorical and discrete numerical variables with respect to questions of interest (AC9M3ST03)

Elaborations
  • creating a poster, flowchart or infographic that describes the process of statistical investigation, and the components, the tools and the types of data that can be collected, represented and interpreted for a purpose
  • collaboratively working through a whole class investigation by choosing a question of interest, using an efficient collection method and recording collected data; interpreting the data in terms of the question
  • planning and carrying out investigations that involve collecting data; for example, narrowing the focus of a question such as, “Which is the most popular breakfast cereal?” to “Which is the most popular breakfast cereal among Year \(3\) students in our class?”
  • conducting a whole class statistical investigation into the best day to hold an open day for parents by creating a simple survey; collecting the data by asking the parents, representing and interpreting the results, and deciding as a class which day would be best
  • investigating seasonal calendars of First Nations Australians by collecting data and creating frequency tables and spreadsheets based on environmental indicators; creating one-to-one data displays about frequency of environmental indicators for the current season
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Discrete data,  Categorical data,  Graphs (Data representation),  Data analysis

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