Conduct statistical investigations: Year 6 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Conduct statistical investigations. Students plan and conduct statistical investigations to collect data to answer a question for an identified problem. They analyse and interpret the data and communicate findings.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| 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 |
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| Strand and focus | Statistics |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6ST03
Plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing and refining questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; analyse and interpret the data and communicate findings within the context of the investigation |
| Numeracy progression |
Interpreting and representing data (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Commonwealth of Australia |
| Copyright | © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated |
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