Exploring bias
Students explore the effect of bias and outliers on summary statistics.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| 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 |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking |
| Strand and focus | Probability, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Statistics |
| Topics | Data representation and interpretation |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMSP206
Explore the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through sampling using a variety of investigative processes
ACMSP207
Investigate the effect of individual data values, including outliers, on the mean and median
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Interpreting and representing data
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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