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Statistics: line graphs, pie charts and the mean

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for building experience of interpreting data, from using knowledge of scales to read information displayed in line graphs accurately to applying understanding of percentages of amounts to interpret pie charts through to calculating the mean average across contexts.

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Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	graphs, pie charts, circles, percentage, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics, Build understanding
Topics	Data representation and interpretation, Multiplication and division, Percentage, Fractions
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
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P4)
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