AC9M5ST03 Year 5 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; choose appropriate displays and interpret the data; communicate findings within the context of the investigation

Elaborations

• 1 posing questions about insect diversity in the playground, collecting data by taping a one-metre-square piece of paper to the playground, and observing the type and number of insects on it over time
• 2 posing a question or identifying a problem of interest, collecting, interpreting and analysing the data and discussing if the data generated provides the information necessary to answer the questions
• 3 developing survey questions that are objective, without opinion and have a balanced set of answer choices without bias
• 4 exploring First Nations Ranger Groups’ and other groups’ biodiversity detection techniques to care for Country/Place, posing investigative questions, collecting and interpreting related data to represent and communicate findings

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