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 (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)
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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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