Give it your best shot

Using the context of sport, students are introduced to calculating the mean, median and mode of a set of data, and how to interpret their findings. Students go on to explore other contexts.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Keywords	statistics, measure of centre, mode, median, mean, average, graph, table, list, set, data
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
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Queensland University of Technology
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