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Awareness of outliers
Students graph data given about the sodium content in foods, either by hand or using a software program. Student are then asked to determine and compare the mean and median for the data both including and omitting the outlier value. A student worksheet and teacher notes are provided
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M8ST01
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P7)
- Publisher
- AAMT
- Copyright
- © 2013 Education Services Australia. Free-for-education material.
- Keywords
- mean median
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