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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 7
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M7ST03
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P6)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2013 Education Services Australia. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- percentage
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