Mathematics / Foundation / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Answer yes/no questions to collect information and make simple inferences (ACMSP011)

Elaborations
  • posing questions about themselves and familiar objects and events
  • representing responses to questions using simple displays, including grouping students according to their answers
  • using data displays to answer simple questions such as ‘how many students answered “yes” to having brown hair?’
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Questionnaires

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How many birds?

Follow three young bird watchers as they count how many birds they can find outside. They count how many bird types they see and then record their observations in a table.

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Peg + Cat: Sort the recycling

Peg, Cat and her neighbour Lady Viv sort and recycle junk left behind in the field. Not only does this clip show how important recycling is it also can be used to discuss organising information and graphing.

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Count Us In, Ep 9: Using data about favourite foods

Flynn helps Dodly gather information about monsters' favourite foods for Dodly's new cafe menu. Watch and learn while the two monsters research their friends' favourite foods and then display and organise this information. Will Flynn ever get fed at Cafe de Dodly?

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reSolve: Statistics - Shoes

This lesson engages students in gathering and representing data on the shoes that students wear to school. Students work together as a class to sort their shoes into different categories of their choosing. They organise and represent their data using a picture graph, then use the graph to answer questions and make simple ...

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Healthy eating at home and on the go

Students will learn about the importance of healthy eating and preparing food safely and hygienically. They will understand how this enables their bodies to grow and develop, using hands-on activities. This lesson is part of a sequence of lessons that can be used with this age-group of students. Topics include Seasons and ...

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Collections of ten are really useful: K–2 Year B – Unit 1

This two-week unit introduces students to the big idea that collections of 10 are useful.

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Data helps describe and wonder about the world: K–2 Year B – Unit 7

This sample multi-stage unit continues to explore the big idea 'data helps describe and wonder about the world'.

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Collections of objects can be changed by adding more (combining) or taking some away (separating): K–2 Year B – Unit 9

This unit develops understanding and skills of forming groups and combining and separating.

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Collections of ten are really useful: K–2 Year B – Unit 11

This sample multi–age unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and skills of place value, number representation, and data.

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Patterns have something that repeats over and over and over again: K–2 Year B – Unit 12

This sample multi-age unit develops student knowledge, skills and understanding about repeating patterns, arrays and different ways to present and communicate about data.

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Data is collected to solve problems: K–2 Year B – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student understanding of data and chance, and their interconnectedness. Students are provided opportunities to: investigate topics of interest by choosing suitable questions to collect, display and interpret relevant data; identify misleading data; learn the names and order of days of the week; ...

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Collections of ten are really useful: K-2 Year A – Unit 1

Collections of ten are really useful – this unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and place value skills, and how attributes can be used to sort objects.

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Data helps describe and wonder about the world: K–2 Year A – Unit 7

This sample multi-age unit explores the big idea 'data helps describe and wonder about the world'.

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Patterns have something that repeats over and over and over again: K–2 Year A – Unit 12

This sample unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and skills in patterning.

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Making and using equal groups: K–2 Year A – Unit 13

This sample unit introduces students to making and using equal groups.

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Work sample Foundation Year Mathematics: Sorting shapes and objects

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Foundation Year Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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First steps in mathematics: Chance and data

This guide supports teachers to develop students’ understanding, skills and processes related to probability and statistics.

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Statistics and probability: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of ideas that cover statistics and probability. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in chance and data including teaching and cultural implications.

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Collect, sort and compare data: Foundation – planning tool

This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Collect, sort and compare data. Students explore foundational ideas for understanding and using data. They learn to collect, sort and compare data while investigating questions related to familiar situations.

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Paying It Forward Years F-2

This resource is a cross-curricular unit about choice, values and saving or spending money based on needs and wants. The unit develops understanding of Australian money including notes and coins, recognising that money can be saved to meet needs and wants, and how money is exchanged in return for goods and services. The ...