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AC9M8ST04 Year 8 Mathematics

AC9M8ST04 | Year 8 Mathematics: Statistics

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor 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
Strand
Statistics
Substrand
Statistics

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Mathematics. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using data such as electricity consumption to draw conclusions about the impacts of events, such as pandemics, on households or business
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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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