Mathematics / Year 8 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Explore the variation of means and proportions of random samples drawn from the same population (ACMSP293)

Elaborations
  • using sample properties to predict characteristics of the population
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Measures of spread,  Mean

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