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reSolve: Data – making decisions
This sequence takes students to a point where they can collect and analyse data to answer their own inquiry questions. It is important for students to learn how to collect, present and read data effectively, so that they might make reasoned judgements and decisions.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5ST03
- Numeracy progression
- Interpreting and representing data (P4)
- Publisher
- reSolve Maths by Inquiry
- Copyright
- © Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment 2021. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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