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reSolve: Statistics: Student Profiling
In this sequence of two lessons, students critically assess the Census@School 2014 Questionnaire and make decisions on how they would analyse the data given the types of questions and responses. They describe the life of a single participant using their survey data and use a range of statistical tools to compare their participant to a larger sample. They use technology such as Excel or TinkerPlots to analyse a large dataset. Each lesson is outlined in detail including curriculum links, vocabulary, materials needed, discussion points, internet resources and spreadsheets of Census@School data. This sequence is part of the reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry program.
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| Year level(s) | Year 10 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | box plots, scatter plots, dot plots, histograms, censuses |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Statistics, Build understanding, Apply understanding |
| Topics | Data representation and interpretation |
| AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMSP249
Construct and interpret box plots and use them to compare data sets
ACMSP250
Compare shapes of box plots to corresponding histograms and dot plots
ACMSP251
Use scatter plots to investigate and comment on relationships between two numerical variables
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Interpreting and representing data
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IRD6
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| Organisation | reSolve Maths by Inquiry |
| Copyright | © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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