AC9M9ST01 Year 9 Mathematics

AC9M9ST01 – Year 9 Mathematics: null

Strand

Statistics

Substrand

Statistics

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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

analyse reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data was obtained to estimate population means and medians

Elaborations

• investigating and evaluating statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data
• investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australia's trade with other countries of the Asia region
• exploring how natural language processing (NLP) tools can be used to help analyse large volumes of survey reports in digital media, expediting various processes, and discussing the benefits or limitations of using these tools
• investigating a range of data and its sources; for example, the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga; the number of subjects studied at school in a year by \(14\)-year-old students in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Timor-Leste
• analysing reports of public opinion surveys on environmental issues, such as land clearing, wind farms or single use plastics; discussing methods of data collection and the reasonableness of any inferences made

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASMATY9

Year 9 Mathematics Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 9, students recognise and use rational and irrational numbers to solve problems. They extend and apply the exponent laws with positive integers to variables. Students expand binomial products, and factorise monic quadratic expressions. They find the distance between 2 points on the Cartesian plane, and the gradient and midpoint of a line segment. Students use mathematical modelling to solve problems involving change in financial and other applied contexts, choosing to use linear and quadratic functions. They graph quadratic functions and solve monic quadratic equations with integer roots algebraically. Students describe the effects of variation of parameters on functions and relations, using digital tools, and make connections between their graphical and algebraic representations. They apply formulas to solve problems involving the surface area and volume of right prisms and cylinders. Students solve problems involving ratio, similarity and scale in two-dimensional situations. They determine percentage errors in measurements. Students apply Pythagoras’ theorem and use trigonometric ratios to solve problems involving right-angled triangles. They use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving direct proportion, ratio and scale, evaluating the model and communicating their methods and findings. Students express small and large numbers in scientific notation. They apply the enlargement transformation to images of shapes and objects, and interpret results. Students design, use and test algorithms based on geometric constructions or theorems. They compare and analyse the distributions of multiple numerical data sets, choose representations, describe features of these data sets using summary statistics and the shape of distributions, and consider the effect of outliers. Students explain how sampling techniques and representation can be used to support or question conclusions or to promote a point of view. They determine sets of outcomes for compound events and represent these in various ways. Students assign probabilities to the outcomes of compound events. They design and conduct experiments or simulations for combined events using digital tools.