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

Curriculum content descriptions

Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the displays (ACMSP263)

Elaborations
  • understanding one-to-one correspondence
  • describing displays by identifying categories with the greatest or least number of objects
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Drawing

Interactive

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

This two-week unit provides opportunity for students to further develop knowledge, understanding, and skills of two-dimensional shapes and their attributes and properties.

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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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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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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.

Online

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 ...

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Smaller numbers can be found hiding in bigger numbers: K–2 Year B – Unit 4

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of place value and how smaller numbers can be found hiding in bigger numbers.

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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.

Interactive

Sites2See – measurement for primary

Selected links to a range of interactive and print resources for Measurement topics in K-6 Mathematics.

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What needs to be measured determines the unit of measure: K–2 Year A – Unit 14

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

Downloadable

Number: Foundation to Year 9

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of number-related ideas showing the relationship to other curriculum strands. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in number including teaching and cultural implications.

Downloadable

First steps in mathematics: Number – Book 1

The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding whole and decimal numbers, and understanding fractional numbers.

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Count Us In, Ep 11: We can help you keep count!

Dodly is trying to keep count of the number of sheep in the backyard. Flynn helps Dodly to keep count by representing the numbers in different ways. They use models, drawings, strokes and numerals to keep count. Also discover the ways different cultures have recorded numbers.