AC9M4ST03
Official content description
conduct statistical investigations, collecting data through survey responses and other methods; record and display data using digital tools; interpret the data and communicate the results
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What Year 4 Maths students should achieve
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- They recognise equivalent fractions and make connections between fraction and decimal notations.
- Students order events or the outcomes of chance experiments in terms of likelihood and identify whether events are independent or dependent.
- They use mathematical modelling to solve financial and other practical problems, formulating the problem using number sentences, solving the problem choosing efficient strategies and interpreting results in terms of the situation.
- They find unknown values in numerical equations involving addition and subtraction.
- Students use the properties of odd and even numbers.
- They choose rounding and estimation strategies to determine whether results of calculations are reasonable.
The Statistics progression either side of AC9M4ST03
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Taught before · Year 3
- AC9M3ST01acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose by observing, collecting and accessing data sets; record the data using appropriate methods including frequency tables and spreadsheets
- AC9M3ST02create and compare different graphical representations of data sets including using software where appropriate; interpret the data in terms of the context
- AC9M3ST03conduct guided statistical investigations involving the collection, representation and interpretation of data for categorical and discrete numerical variables with respect to questions of interest
Builds towards · Year 5
- AC9M5ST01acquire, validate and represent data for nominal and ordinal categorical and discrete numerical variables, to address a question of interest or purpose using software including spreadsheets; discuss and report on data distributions in terms of highest frequency (mode) and shape, in the context of the data
- AC9M5ST02interpret line graphs representing change over time; discuss the relationships that are represented and conclusions that can be made
- AC9M5ST03plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; choose appropriate displays and interpret the data; communicate findings within the context of the investigation
Other Year 4 Statistics codes
- AC9M4ST01acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose, using digital tools; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays or visualisations; interpret and discuss the information that has been created
- AC9M4ST02analyse the effectiveness of different displays or visualisations in illustrating and comparing data distributions, then discuss the shape of distributions and the variation in the data
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