The humanoid project
Students explore a large data set.
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Year level(s) | Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 |
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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 |
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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
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National numeracy learning progression |
Interpreting and representing data
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Copyright details |
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Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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