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Scatter it

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Level 4-6

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 4
    • S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • B gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends
  • Level 6
    • S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • C identifying and communicating features in context (trends, relationships between variables, and differences within and between distributions), using multiple displays

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
    • Rise to new challenges – using appropriate strategies
  • Thinking
    • Exploring and using patterns and relationships in data
  • Using language, symbols and texts
    • Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams
    • Using ICT as appropriate

Author

Jason Florence

Last revised

Lindsay Smith and Richard Mackrory (June 2008)

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