Elaboration ACMSP145
conducting repeated trials of chance experiments, identifying the variation between trials and realising that the results tend to the prediction with larger numbers of trials
Elaboration | ACMSP145 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACMSP146
predicting likely outcomes from a run of chance events and distinguishing these from surprising results
Elaboration | ACMSP146 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACMSP147
comparing different student-generated diagrams, tables and graphs, describing their similarities and differences and commenting on the usefulness of each representation for interpreting the data
Elaboration | ACMSP147 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACMSP147
understanding that data can be represented in different ways, sometimes with one symbol representing more than one piece of data, and that it is important to read all information about a representation before making judgements
Elaboration (1) | ACMSP147 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACMSP148
investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
Elaboration | ACMSP148 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACMSP148
identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media, such as graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims are made, and pie charts in which the whole …
Elaboration (1) | ACMSP148 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum