survey

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Armspans

Are the armspan lengths of 12-year-old boys and girls the same or different?

Level 5-6

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 5
    • S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • B considering sources of variation
      • C gathering and cleaning data
      • D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
  • Level 6
    • S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • D making informal inferences about populations from sample data

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Participating and Contributing
    • Contribute to a culture of inquiry and learning
  • Thinking
    • Deal with uncertainty and variation
    • Investigating
    • Make decisions
    • Make predictions
    • Seek patterns and generalisations
    • Think critically

Author

Julia Horring

Last revised

Lisa Gilmore (June 2008)

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