Statistics and probability (8 lessons)

In this sequence of 8 lessons, students explore probability and data by comparing outcomes, sample sizes, and creating graphs to represent and justify data.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords	data collections, data analysis, theoretical probabilities, experimental probabilities, summative assessment, sample space
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Probability, Statistics
Topics	Chance and probability, Statistical investigations
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6ST01 Interpret and compare data sets for ordinal and nominal categorical, discrete and continuous numerical variables using comparative displays or visualisations and digital tools; compare distributions in terms of mode, range and shape AC9M6P02 Conduct repeated chance experiments and run simulations with an increasing number of trials using digital tools; compare observations with expected results and discuss the effect on variation of increasing the number of trials AC9M6P01 Recognise that probabilities lie on numerical scales of 0 - 1 or 0% - 100% and use estimation to assign probabilities that events occur in a given context, using common fractions, percentages and decimals
Numeracy progression	Understanding chance (P4) Interpreting and representing data (P5)
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Organisation	Victoria State Government Department of Education
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