AC9M8ST04 Year 8 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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 involving samples of a population; use ethical and fair methods to make inferences about the population and report findings, acknowledging uncertainty

Elaborations

• 1 using data such as electricity consumption to draw conclusions about the impacts of events, such as pandemics, on households or business
• 2 identifying situations where the collection of data from a sample is necessary due to efficiency, cost or restricted time for collection of data, and sufficiently reliable for making inferences about a population
• 3 exploring progress in reconciliation between First Nations Australians and non-Indigenous Australians, investigating and evaluating sampling techniques and methods to gather relevant data to measure progress

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