AC9M3ST03 Year 3 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

conduct guided statistical investigations involving the collection, representation and interpretation of data for categorical and discrete numerical variables with respect to questions of interest

Elaborations

• 1 creating a poster, flowchart or infographic that describes the process of statistical investigation, and the components, the tools and the types of data that can be collected, represented and interpreted for a purpose
• 2 collaboratively working through a whole class investigation by choosing a question of interest, using an efficient collection method and recording collected data; interpreting the data in terms of the question
• 3 planning and carrying out investigations that involve collecting data; for example, narrowing the focus of a question such as, “Which is the most popular breakfast cereal?” to “Which is the most popular breakfast cereal among Year \(3\) students in our class?”
• 4 conducting a whole class statistical investigation into the best day to hold an open day for parents by creating a simple survey; collecting the data by asking the parents, representing and interpreting the results, and deciding as a class which day would be best
• 5 investigating seasonal calendars of First Nations Australians by collecting data and creating frequency tables and spreadsheets based on environmental indicators; creating one-to-one data displays about frequency of environmental indicators for the current season

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