Surf’s Up in the River

Torrens Data Investigation

SUBJECT Maths YEAR 7
LEVEL

DUE DATE In class assessment

Wednesday week 8 (21/09)

Task Requirements

To complete this task, you will need to analyse data provided on Teams and display data sets using
appropriate graphs. To enable you to complete this with autonomy, you will need to watch the required
videos listed below, use guides on how to use excel on Teams and access the Class Data file posted to
Teams
Instructions

Question 1.
Watch the video below and in your own words, write a definition for mean, median, mode and range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40x0NjdmbTg&ab_channel=2MinuteClassroom

Mean:
Median:
Mode:
Range:

Question 2.
Access the file called “Class Data” on Teams (Teams  Files  class materials Surf’s up in the River
Torrens). You will use it to answer the following questions

Under the rainfall page, calculate the average rainfall for the two years and insert the averages in the
table below.

Month Rainfall
Question 3.
In the “Class Data” excel sheet, create a frequency table displaying the categories and how often they
appear in the set of data.

Category Frequency

Question 4.
Recorded underneath is the daily water temperature data from the River Torrens.
a) Complete a stem and leaf plot for this data set

Frequency

b) Calculate the mean, median, mode and range for this data set

20 19 16 22 24 27

30 33 12 11 1 18

23 24 21 24 26 28

Mean:
Median:
Mode:
Range:

c) How reliable do you think the data is? Discuss the variation and the sample size and how
these might have affected your results. Are there any outliers in this data?
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Focus A B C D E
Assessment Criteria
Students solved a Students adapted Students Students Students did not
problem strategies competently sometimes solve many
they hadn’t seen they had used solved problems solved problems problems
before by before to solve similar to that successfully even
using their own a problem that ones they had were similar to when they were
invented was new, completed ones they similar to those
strategies and rather than using previously, using had completed completed
thinking, a formula rehearsed in class previously, and
rather than using they had strategies that but this was with substantial
Problem Solving a formula memorised. they had inconsistent. teacher
(Thinking and they have Teacher may memorised. Teacher may guidance.
Reasoning) memorised. have prompted, Teacher may have
Teacher may have guided, or lead have provided
made throughout the prompted, substantial
suggestions to problem as long guided and lead guidance
help the as this throughout the throughout the
student get involved asking problem problem solving
started and to questions solving process. process.
help them rather than telling
evaluate their the student
ideas carefully. what to do.
Students clearly Students proved Teacher could Teacher had Student did not
proved how how they got interpret difficulty show how they
they got their their answer. This how the student interpreting obtained their
answer. This included obtained how the answer.
included detailed working, their answer. student
Reasoning
working, drawings and/or obtained their
(Communicating)
drawings and/or explanations, but answer.
explanations. may have
skipped some
details.

Students Students made Students Students had Students had

demonstrated a connections explained some some difficulty stating
deep level of between the patterns and difficulty patterns and
mathematical patterns and principles that explaining principles that
understanding by principles that underpin patterns and underpin
making underpin mathematics, principles mathematics.
connections mathematics. but that underpin
between the With some had difficulty Mathematics,
patterns and teacher input and making and did not
principles that guidance, connections make
Understanding underpin they adapted between connections
(Reflecting) mathematics. mathematical these. They between these.
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showed ability to algorithms when mathematical sometimes used
adapt and solving non- formulae mathematical
manipulate standard and algorithms formulae
mathematical problems. in routine and algorithms
formulae and and application in routine
algorithms for questions, questions, but
themselves when but had had
solving difficulty with difficulty with
non-standard nonstandard application.
problems. problems.
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