Mathematics / Year 1 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Choose simple questions and gather responses and make simple inferences (ACMSP262)

Elaborations
  • determining which questions will gather appropriate responses for a simple investigation
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Research questions,  Questionnaires

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Bear and Chook by the Sea

This learning object is designed around a series of videos with Lisa Shanahan, author, and Emma Quay, illustrator, including a reading experience of their collaborative work, Bear and Chook by the Sea. Taken as a whole, this sequence of lessons is a Stage 1 unit of work that results in students working in pairs to produce ...

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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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A year on a farm

This resource is a 50 page pdf integrated inquiry unit, for junior primary students, exploring farm life and farm produce. It uses the five stage inquiry model to sequence activities on the importance of measuring time in farm production. Topics explored are: how do farmers grow animals and crops?; how are these processed ...

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reSolve: Statistics - Planning Playgrounds

This sequence of four lessons engages students in sorting, classifying, representing and interpreting data in order to plan a playground for their school or community. Students choose simple questions for a survey, gather responses and make simple inferences from their data. They then create picture graphs and explore how ...

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reSolve: Authentic Problems: Target Ball

This sequence of four lessons explores the relationship between an informal unit of measure and what is being measured using the context of designing a game of 'Target Ball'. Students work in groups to collect data on how far their chose ball rolls, using a cut-out foot as an informal unit of measure. They represent and ...

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Rice baby

This module connects students to the world around them as they discover that each person is unique whilst also sharing common traits and needs. Students cultivate a sense of empathy and experience different perspectives by being encouraged to care for their rice baby. The module includes a comprehensive teacher guide, curriculum ...

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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 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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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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What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement: K-2 Year A – Unit 3

What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement– this unit introduces students to measurement using direct and indirect comparison.

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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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Data is collected to solve problems. Data can be organised in different ways: K–2 Year A – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of data.

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Years 1–2: Ways we represent data

In this scope and sequence unit students represent objects, ideas and events as pictures, symbols, numbers and words. Students represent the data they have acquired in different ways.

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Deadly data

Students select a suitable question for gathering data, they collect simple data and record responses, and then use a simple data display to represent, read and interpret data.

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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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Acquire, record and represent data: Year 1 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 1 is for the topic of Acquire, record and represent data. Students consolidate and extend upon their knowledge of data. They collect and record categorical data in various ways including using tally marks, objects and drawings. They represent data using one-to-one displays and refer to these ...

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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 ...