Statistics: Origami frogs

Students investigate how far an origami frog can jump. They define their question, plan, collect and record data. They analyse this data and use it as evidence to answer the question.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 4
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Concrete Representational Abstract model, Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation
Keywords investigations, representing data

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Statistics
Topics Statistical investigations
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

AC9M4ST02
Analyse the effectiveness of different displays or visualisations in illustrating and comparing data distributions, then discuss the shape of distributions and the variation in the data

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

Numeracy progression Interpreting and representing data (P4)

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Australian Academy of Science

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