Statistics: Climb, slide or swing?

Students investigate the problem of designing a class playground that is fun for everyone. They plan, collect, record and analyse survey data to conclude what playground features students would like.

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Year level(s) Year 2
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Differentiated teaching
Keywords investigations, representing data

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Statistics
Topics Statistical investigations
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M2ST02
Create different graphical representations of data using software where appropriate; compare the different representations, identify and describe common and distinctive features in response to questions

AC9M2ST01
Acquire data for categorical variables through surveys, observation, experiment and using digital tools; sort data into relevant categories and display data using lists and tables

Numeracy progression Interpreting and representing data (P3)

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Australian Academy of Science

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