Statistics and probability (7 lessons)

In this sequence of 7 lessons, students collect, display, and analyse data using tables, graphs, and chance experiments to describe outcomes, discuss fairness, and make predictions.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 4
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Worked examples, Explicit teaching, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	data collection, organising data, chance experiments, patterns in data, summative assessment
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Probability, Statistics
Topics	Statistical investigations, Chance and probability
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M4ST03 Conduct statistical investigations, collecting data through survey responses and other methods; record and display data using digital tools; interpret the data and communicate the results AC9M4ST01 Acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays or visualisations; interpret and discuss the information that has been created AC9M4P02 Conduct repeated chance experiments to observe relationships between outcomes; identify and describe the variation in results AC9M4P01 Describe possible everyday events and the possible outcomes of chance experiments and order outcomes or events based on their likelihood of occurring; identify independent or dependent events
Numeracy progression	Understanding chance (P3) Interpreting and representing data (P4)
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Organisation	Victoria State Government Department of Education
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