Collect, sort and compare data: Year 8 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Collect, sort and compare data. Students examine different techniques for collecting types of data and begin to consider the challenges of collecting representative data by sampling a population.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
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	AC9M8ST01 Investigate techniques for data collection including census, sampling, experiment and observation, and explain the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through these techniques
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P7)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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