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Sampling from a population

Teacher guide Sampling from a population

TLF ID M014016

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that refers to sampling from a population and taking a census from the Australian Curriculum for year 8 students. It contains material on cross-sections of sampling and how the means and proportions of samples vary. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain interactive questions for students to check their progress in the topic.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for both teachers and students for the year 8 Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. It is particularly relevant to the content descriptions about sampling data from a population. It also supports the need to define the population surveyed, and includes consideration of the variability of data samples and how this relates to estimating relative frequency.
  • The resource may be useful in helping students achieve that element of the year 8 achievement standards that refers to students explaining issues related to the collection of data.
Year level

8

Topics Mean Proportions Sampling bias Sampling (Statistics) Data collection Censuses Predictions (Science) Measures of spread Random sampling Relative frequency Generalisation Sample size
Learning area
  • Mathematics

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Name: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Organization: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute
  • Description: Creator
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.amsi.org.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Interactive
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2013 Education Services Australia Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. This material may be copied, distributed and adapted free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes, provided all copyright notices and acknowledgements are retained.