identify statistically informed arguments presented in traditional and digital media; discuss and critique methods, data representations and conclusions

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
• evaluating reports and secondary data relating to the distribution and use of non-renewable resources around the world
• identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media; for example, graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims are made and pie charts in which the whole pie does not represent the entire population about which the claims are made