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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).
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Assessment tasks Student activities Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Number Statistics
- Topic
- Addition and subtraction Data representation and interpretation Decimals Integers Operating with number Place value
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7ST01
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P5)
- Publisher
- Inquiry Maths
- Copyright
- © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Other terms
- interquartile range
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