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Exploring bias

Students explore questions such as: What does it mean to be biased? Where could there be bias in the local, state or federal environments? Is bias restricted to one age group? Does bias affect everyone? Why? What causes bias?

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7, Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Keywords	mean, statistic, outlier, bias, population, range, sample, mode, median
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Probability, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7ST02 Create different types of numerical data displays including stem-and-leaf plots using software where appropriate; describe and compare the distribution of data, commenting on the shape, centre and spread including outliers and determining the range, median, mean and mode AC9M8ST01 Investigate techniques for data collection including census, sampling, experiment and observation, and explain the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through these techniques
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P5, P7)
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