Data in 5-6
Ideas for teaching about patterns in data, representing data as pictures, symbols and diagrams, ideas for teaching about collecting, sorting and using digital systems to present data and ideas for teaching about defining problems in terms of data.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 5-6 |
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Content type | Lesson ideas |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Data acquisition, Data interpretation |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P01
Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI6K03
Explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers
AC9TDI6K04
Explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary) |
Keywords | Binary, Data representation, Lesson ideas, ASCII, Digital images, Binary votes, Problem solving, Problem solving, Collecting data, Analysing data |
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Mathematics |
Organisation | Weebly |
Copyright | Dabbling in Data. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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