WS04 - Design a putt putt course

Use this work sample to assess students' knowledge and skills to compare ways to collect data and analyse summary statistics using digital tools.

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Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment advice, Assessment task
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Feedback
Keywords	spreadsheet, dataset, mean, analysis, interpretation
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation, Statistical investigations
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8ST01 Investigate techniques for data collection including census, sampling, experiment and observation, and explain the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through these techniques AC9M8ST02 Analyse and report on the distribution of data from primary and secondary sources using random and non-random sampling techniques to select and study samples AC9M8ST03 Compare variations in distributions and proportions obtained from random samples of the same size drawn from a population and recognise the effect of sample size on this variation AC9M8ST04 Plan and conduct statistical investigations involving samples of a population; use ethical and fair methods to make inferences about the population and report findings, acknowledging uncertainty
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P7)
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