Mathematics / Year 10 / Statistics and Probability / Data representation and interpretation

Curriculum content descriptions

Evaluate statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data (ACMSP253)

Elaborations
  • investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australia's trade with other countries of the Asia region
  • evaluating statistical reports comparing the life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with that of the Australian population as a whole
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Critical thinking

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