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Victorian Curriculum
- Duration - 3 weeks
- Determine quartiles and interquartiles range and investigate the effect of individual data values, including outliers on the interquartile range (VCMSP349)
- Construct and interpret box plots and use them to compare data sets (VCMSP350)
- Compare shapes of box plots to corresponding histograms and dot plots and discuss the distribution of data (VCMSP351)
- Evaluate statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data (VCMSP354)
Learning Outcomes
Students should be able to:
- Identify different data types
- Construct histograms and back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots
- Calculate the mean and median in skewed and symmetric displays and use these to describe and interpret the distribution of the data
- Calculate relative frequencies
- Compare univariate data sets by referring to summary statistics and the shape of their displays
Text Exercises
Other Resources
- Alternative for 5A: 'Collecting Data document'
- 5B: 'Graphing Data document'
- 5C/5D (gold book): 'First Statistics'
- 5D/5E (gold book): 'Quartiles and Outliers'
- 5E/5F (gold book): 'Box plots'
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