Acquire and record data: Year 7 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 7 is for the topic of Acquire and record data. Students develop a robust statistical vocabulary. This includes defining and distinguishing between discrete numerical and continuous numerical data. To illustrate the differences students should be asked to collect sets of data from their peers. They should describe the differences in the results from each dataset and use these observations to construct definitions.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7ST01 Acquire data sets for discrete and continuous numerical variables and calculate the range, median, mean and mode; make and justify decisions about which measures of central tendency provide useful insights into the nature of the distribution of data
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P5)
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Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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