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Increasing sample size
This video resource can be used to identify the value of having a larger sample to use to show a reliable comparison to the population. It could be used as a starting prompt. It includes some questions to ask students to encourage mathematical thinking.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Video
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8ST01
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2013 Education Services Australia. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- data displays data distributions
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