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Big ideas in statistics

Part of the Top Drawer Teachers - Big Ideas series, this resource gives an overview of some of the important ideas in statistics:

There are sections about common misunderstandings, teaching and assessment strategies, and student activities.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher, School Leader
Purpose	Content knowledge
Format	Web page
Keywords	statistics, variation, expected, graph
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Statistics
Topics	Data representation and interpretation, Chance and probability
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8ST03 Compare variations in distributions and proportions obtained from random samples of the same size drawn from a population and recognise the effect of sample size on this variation
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P7)
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