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PDST Data & Chance Handbook for Primary Schools

Added: 31 Mar 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: Guide/notes

The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.

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Mathematics

Strand: Data

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.

Strand: Data

Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • represent and interpret data in two, three or four rows or columns using real objects, models and pictures
  • represent, read and interpret simple block graphs
  • represent, read and interpret simple tables and charts (pictograms)
  • sort and classify objects by two and three criteria
  • sort and classify objects by two and three criteria

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.

Strand: Data

Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
  • collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs, bar charts and bar-line graphs incorporating the scales 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:100
  • read and interpret bar-line graphs and simple pie charts
  • read and interpret tables, pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
  • use data sets to solve and complete practical tasks and problems

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.


Strand: Data

Strand unit: Chance

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • identify and record outcomes of simple random processes
  • order events in terms of likelihood of occurrence
  • use vocabulary of uncertainty and chance: chance, likely, unlikely, never, definitely
  • use vocabulary of uncertainty and chance: possible, impossible, might, certain, not sure

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.

Strand: Data

Strand unit: Chance

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • construct and use frequency charts and tables
  • estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events; order on a scale from 0 to 100%, 0 to 1
  • estimate the likelihood of occurrence of events
  • identify and list all possible outcomes of simple random processes

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.


Strand: Data

Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data

Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:

  • collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, single and multiple bar charts and simple pie charts
  • collect, organise and represent data using pie charts and trend graphs
  • compile and use simple data sets
  • explore and calculate averages of simple data sets
  • read and interpret pictograms, single and multiple bar charts, and pie charts
  • read and interpret trend graphs and pie charts
  • use data sets to solve problems
  • use data sets to solve problems

Suggestions for use: The following teacher handbook is intended to complement and support the implementation of the Primary School Mathematics Curriculum (PSMC). By providing additional guidance in the teaching and learning of mathematics, the publications attempt to illuminate an instructional framework for enhancing mathematical thinking. This instructional framework advocates methods of eliciting, supporting and extending higher-order mathematics skills such as reasoning; communicating and expressing; integrating and connecting; and applying and problem solving.

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  • Language: English
  • Rights: Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons
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