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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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 10
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Keywords	box plots, scatter plots, dot plots, histograms, censuses
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M10ST02 Compare data distributions for continuous numerical variables using appropriate data displays including boxplots; discuss the shapes of these distributions in terms of centre, spread, shape and outliers in the context of the data AC9M10ST03 Construct scatterplots and comment on the association between the 2 numerical variables in terms of strength, direction and linearity
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P8)
Copyright details
Organisation	reSolve Maths by Inquiry
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