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Sleuthing pie charts

Students are presented with a pie graph which has obviously incorrect percentages. Students are asked to analyse the graph and discuss the errors. A link is given to possible answers and some options for extension are suggested.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Feedback, Questioning
Keywords	pie graphs
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics, Apply understanding
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7ST03 Plan and conduct statistical investigations involving data for discrete and continuous numerical variables; analyse and interpret distributions of data and report findings in terms of shape and summary statistics
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P6)
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