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Mathematics / Year 9 / Statistics
Curriculum content descriptions
analyse reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data was obtained to estimate population means and medians (AC9M9ST01)
Elaborations
- investigating and evaluating statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data
- investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australias trade with other countries of the Asia region
- exploring how natural language processing (NLP) tools can be used to help analyse large volumes of survey reports in digital media, expediting various processes, and discussing the benefits or limitations of using these tools
- investigating a range of data and its sources; for example, the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga; the number of subjects studied at school in a year by \(14\)-year-old students in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Timor-Leste
- analysing reports of public opinion surveys on environmental issues, such as land clearing, wind farms or single use plastics; discussing methods of data collection and the reasonableness of any inferences made
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Statistical analysis, Statistical reports, Critical thinking, Sampling (Statistics), Surveying (Data collection)