CHANCE AND DATA STRAND OUTCOMES ADDRESSED

CHANCE

 

CD 4.1     Students analyse experimental data and compare numerical results with predicted results to inform judgments about the likelihood of particular outcomes.

CORE CONTENT

Likelihood

Judgments

  language of chance

   frequency table

   relative frequency

  probability values

   impossible to certain, 0 to 1, key percentages between 0% and 100%

   relate colloquialisms to probability values (e.g. ‘fifty-fifty’, ‘Buckley’s chance’)

 

  subjective and numerical judgments

   comparisons and predictions based on experimental and given data

   fairness of rules

 

 

 

DATA

 

CD 4.2     Students plan and carry out data collections using their own data record templates, choose and construct appropriate displays and make comparisons about the data based on the displays and measures of location.

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CORE CONTENT

Collecting and Handling Data

Exploring and Presenting Data

Identifying and Interpreting Variation

  plans and methods for data collection

   design of data record templates

   data entry into spreadsheets

   extraction of data from existing data sources

  classify data

  check data

  discrete data

   categorical data

   count data

  continuous data

 

  displays

   pie charts

   bar graphs

   dot-plots

   line graphs

   two-way tables

   lists

 

 

  features of data

   measures of location (central tendency)

º   mean

º   median

º   mode (for discrete data)

  limitations of measures of location

 

 

 

LIFE-LONG LEARNER ATTRIBUTES ADDRESSED

·          a knowledgeable person with deep understanding

·          a complex thinker

·          a creative person

·          an active investigator

·          an effective communicator

·          a participant in an interdependent world

·          a reflective and self-directed learner.

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