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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7ST01
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P5)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2013 Education Services Australia. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- mean median
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