AC9M9ST01 Year 9 Mathematics

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

• • Elaboration investigating and evaluating statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data
• • Elaboration investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australia's trade with other countries of the Asia region
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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