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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M6ST03
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P5)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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