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Data representations (Year 9)

This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate and extend their content knowledge ways of displaying data, such as histograms and box plots. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher, School Leader
Purpose	Content knowledge
Format	Downloadable resources
Keywords	histogram, box, plot, data distribution, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9ST03 Represent the distribution of multiple data sets for numerical variables using comparative representations; compare data distributions with consideration of centre, spread and shape, and the effect of outliers on these measures
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P8)
Copyright details
Organisation	AMSI
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