Give it your best shot
Students calculate the mean, median and mode for sets of data and select the appropriate measure of centre.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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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 | statistics, measure of centre, mode, median, mean, average, graph, table, list, set, data |
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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 |
ACMSP171
Calculate mean, median, mode and range for sets of data. Interpret these statistics in the context of data
ACMSP172
Describe and interpret data displays using median, mean and range
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Interpreting and representing data
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IRD4
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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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