Conduct statistical investigations: Year 8 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 8 is for the topic of Conduct statistical investigations. Student bring together their learnings and plan a statistical investigation using known data or by conducting statistical data collection themselves. Students identify potential data collection and analysis from available data sets and identify the most practical method for collecting data to make inferences that are ethical and fair.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Statistical investigations
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8ST04
- 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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