Sports Statistics of a Population

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• collaboration
• digital literacy
• leadership
• problem solving
• prototyping
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 8 Health and Physical Education 

Students can:

• participate in physical activities designed to improve fitness and wellbeing to investigate the impact of regular participation on health, fitness and wellbeing (AC9HP8M04).

Year 8 Mathematics

Students can:

• plan and conduct statistical investigations involving samples of a population; use ethical and fair methods to make inferences about the population and report findings, acknowledging uncertainty (AC9M8ST04)
• compare variations in distributions and proportions obtained from random samples of the same size drawn from a population and recognise the effect of sample size on this variation (AC9M8ST03).

Relevant parts of Year 8 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students propose and evaluate strategies designed to achieve personal health, fitness and wellbeing outcomes. Students apply and transfer movement skills and movement concepts across a range of situations.

Relevant parts of Year 8 Mathematics achievement standards: Students conduct statistical investigations and explain the implications of obtaining data through sampling. They compare the variation distributions of random samples of the same and different size from a given population with respect to shape, measure of central tendency and range.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and help with data analysis.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

• Australia’s Commonwealth Games: Medal Tally
• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• sports equipment for badminton, tennis and/or squash
• student devices for individual use
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

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