WS03 - Interpreting and comparing data

Use this work sample to assess students' knowledge and skills to compare and interpret data using different displays.

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Year level(s) Year 6
Audience Teacher
Purpose Assessment advice, Assessment task
Format Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Feedback
Keywords categorical, discrete numerical variables, graphical representations, interpretation of data, mathematical modelling

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Number, Statistics
Topics Operating with number, Data representation and interpretation, Mathematical modelling, Statistical investigations
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M6N01
Recognise situations, including financial contexts, that use integers; locate and represent integers on a number line and as coordinates on the Cartesian plane

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 Additive strategies (P9)
Interpreting and representing data (P5)
Multiplicative strategies (P8)
Understanding money (P8)

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