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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 |
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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 |
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Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
Strand and focus | Statistics, Build understanding |
Topics | Data representation and interpretation, Multiplication and division, Percentage, Fractions |
AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMSP147
Interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables
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National numeracy learning progression |
Interpreting and representing data
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IRD2, IRD3, IRD4
Multiplicative strategies Operating with percentages |
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Organisation | White Rose Maths |
Copyright | © 2021 White Rose Maths. Free-for-education material. |
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