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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

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