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AC9M6ST02: Year 6 Mathematics Content Descriptor – Statistics
AC9M6ST02 Year 6 Mathematics

AC9M6ST02 – Year 6 Mathematics: null

Strand
Statistics
Substrand
Statistics

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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.

Content Descriptor

identify statistically informed arguments presented in traditional and digital media; discuss and critique methods, data representations and conclusions

Elaborations

  • • investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
  • • evaluating reports and secondary data relating to the distribution and use of non-renewable resources around the world
  • • identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media; for example, 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 pie does not represent the entire population about which the claims are made
  • • investigating both traditional and digital media relating to First Nations Australians, identifying and critiquing statistically informed arguments

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 6 ASMATY6
Year 6 Mathematics Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students use integers to represent points on a number line and in the Cartesian plane. They solve problems using the properties of prime, composite and square numbers. Students order common fractions, giving reasons, and add and subtract fractions with related denominators. They use all 4 operations with decimals and connect decimal representations of measurements to the metric system. Students solve problems involving finding a fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity and use estimation to find approximate solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages. They use mathematical modelling to solve financial and other practical problems involving percentages and rational numbers, formulating and solving the problem, and justifying choices. Students find unknown values in numerical equations involving combinations of arithmetic operations. They identify and explain rules used to create growing patterns. Students create and use algorithms to generate sets of numbers, using a rule. They interpret and use timetables. Students convert between common units of length, mass and capacity. They use the formula for the area of a rectangle and angle properties to solve problems. Students identify the parallel cross-section for right prisms. They create tessellating patterns using combinations of transformations. Students locate an ordered pair in any one of the 4 quadrants on the Cartesian plane. They compare distributions of discrete and continuous numerical and ordinal categorical data sets as part of their statistical investigations, using digital tools. Students critique arguments presented in the media based on statistics. They assign probabilities using common fractions, decimal and percentages. Students conduct simulations using digital tools, to generate and record the outcomes from many trials of a chance experiment. They compare observed frequencies to the expected frequencies of the outcomes of chance experiments.