AC9M9ST04 Year 9 Mathematics

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.

choose appropriate forms of display or visualisation for a given type of data; justify selections and interpret displays for a given context

Elaborations

• 1 comparing data displays using mean, median and range to describe and interpret numerical data sets in terms of centre and spread using histograms, dot plots, or stem-and-leaf plots
• 2 choosing the type of representations based on the data type: categorical (nominal or ordinal) or numerical (discrete or continuous)
• 3 using different visualisations of data, including non-standard representations such as infographics, and discussing their purpose, intended audience; evaluating how well they communicate responses to statistical questions of interest
• 4 comparing and interpreting stacked bar charts, area charts and line graphs, discussing how they represent larger categories that can be subdivided into smaller categories and how information that can be obtained from these displays can be used for comparison
• 5 using digital tools, including generative artificial intelligence, to generate different data displays and visualisations using existing data sets, and discussing which form is more appropriate for the given context

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