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reSolve: Scrabble Stats

This sequence of lessons invites students to collect data about letter frequency in a variety of text sources. They use their findings to critically evaluate letter point values in Scrabble, compare them to historical values, create their own themed Scrabble point values and to decipher an encoded excerpt of text. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, sample answers, discussion points and student resources. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Keywords	column graphs, expected frequency, categorical data, statistical frequency, observations
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Build understanding, Apply understanding, Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6P02 Conduct repeated chance experiments and run simulations with an increasing number of trials using digital tools; compare observations with expected results and discuss the effect on variation of increasing the number of trials AC9M6ST01 Interpret and compare data sets for ordinal and nominal categorical, discrete and continuous numerical variables using comparative displays or visualisations and digital tools; compare distributions in terms of mode, range and shape
Numeracy progression	Understanding chance (P4) Interpreting and representing data (P4)
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Organisation	reSolve Maths by Inquiry
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