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Week 6 Assignment Analysis

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Reflection for Question 16 Initially I felt confident approaching question 16, because I enjoy interpreting data and using algorithms to determine median. However, this changed as I had no prior schemes of leaf and stem tables therefore, I struggled to interpret the key 5|2 = 52. Eventually, I interpreted the key and identified the vertical line as separating the 10s and units and was able to read the table. I applied the key to the table and extracted the relevant mathematical facts (Step 1-2). To confirm I was approaching the question correctly I counted the number of data entries on the table (Step 2). Knowing that median is the “central value” (Larkin, 2011, pg.115), I calculated that I was looking for the 15th number in the sequence by dividing the number of jumps recorded by two to arrive at 14.5 and rounded to 15 (Step 3). I counted 15 numbers from the top stopping at the 15th, being 65 (Step 4). I was confident employing my chosen strategy as I checked the answer by using the strategy of I crossing off one number from the top and one from the bottom, until I arrived 65 (the middle number in the set). I used number and place value, division, data representation and interpretation and calculation of median (ACMSP171), (ACMSP172) (ACARA, 2015), to complete this problem. …show more content…

Each row at opposite ends contains the same amount of numbers. Therefore, applying visualization strategies, I can see that the middle number in the 6’s row is the median number. This only works because the numbers are in numeric

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