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Science / Year 3 / Science Inquiry Skills / Processing and analysing data and information

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Curriculum content descriptions

Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends (ACSIS057)

Elaborations
  • using provided tables to organise materials and objects based on observable properties
  • discussing how to graph data presented in a table
  • identifying and discussing numerical and visual patterns in data collected from students' own investigations and from secondary sources
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Data analysis

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