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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8ST01
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
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