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Misunderstanding averages

This collection of resources focuses on mean, median and mode of data sets. It includes the problem of trying to use measures of spread for categorical data, sample activities for measures of spread for numerical data and identifying outliers.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching
Keywords	mean, median, mode, outliers
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics, Build understanding
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7ST01 Acquire data sets for discrete and continuous numerical variables and calculate the range, median, mean and mode; make and justify decisions about which measures of central tendency provide useful insights into the nature of the distribution of data
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P5)
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Organisation	AAMT
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