This Year 4 unit helps students develop their statistical investigation skills by walking them through the necessary stages to plan, conduct and analyse a statistical investigation and then communicate their findings.
The unit does rely on familiarity with data and statistical terms, so this unit should follow our other data and statistics units for Year 4.
Conduct statistical investigations, collecting data through survey responses and other methods; record and display data using digital tools; interpret the data and communicate the results
Analyse the effectiveness of different displays or visualisations in illustrating and comparing data distributions, then discuss the shape of distributions and the variation in the data
Select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions and recording sheets
Select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions and recording sheets
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used
Selects appropriate methods to collect data, and constructs, compares, interprets and evaluates data displays, including tables, picture graphs and column graphs
Collects discrete data and constructs graphs using a given scale
Iinterprets data in tables, dot plots and column graphs