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Averages inquiry

This sequence of lessons explores students' ability to find the mean, median, mode and range from given data, working collaboratively. The lessons slowly increase in difficulty, through the introduction of new terms and increasing task complexity. The lessons are detailed with accompanying resources (PowerPoint, prompt sheet).

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Content knowledge, Student task, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Questioning, Structuring lessons, Worked examples
Keywords	mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, average
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	English, Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Number, Statistics, Apply understanding, Build understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Data representation and interpretation, Decimals, Integers, Operating with number, Place value
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)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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