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The humanoid project

Students explore a large data set.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Student task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Mathematics investigation, Explicit teaching
Keywords	survey, measure of spread, measure of centre, report, analyse, range, mode, median, mean, data
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Probability, Apply understanding, Build understanding, Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMSP171 Calculate mean, median, mode and range for sets of data. Interpret these statistics in the context of data ACMSP170 Construct and compare a range of data displays including stem-and-leaf plots and dot plots ACMSP228 Identify everyday questions and issues involving at least one numerical and at least one categorical variable, and collect data directly and from secondary sources ACMSP282 Construct back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots and histograms and describe data, using terms including ‘skewed’, ‘symmetric’ and ‘bi modal’ ACMSP283 Compare data displays using mean, median and range to describe and interpret numerical data sets in terms of location (centre) and spread
National numeracy learning progression	Interpreting and representing data
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Organisation	Queensland University of Technology
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