Assessment Task Plan
Year 7 Mathematics How Fit Are You?
Unit overview
This unit requires students to understand what data and mathematical calculations are required to make judgements
about one’s personal fitness. Records of students’ physical activity, including heart rates and recovery times, are used to
prepare tables and graphs that illustrate levels of fitness. The calculation of mean, median and mode will assist students
to make statements about their own personal fitness and to make comparisons between their level of fitness and that of
the whole class.
Curriculum intent
Ways of Working
Assessable elements
Select and use suitable mental and written
computations, estimations, representations and
technologies to generate solutions and to check for
reasonableness.
Knowledge and understanding
Thinking and reasoning
Communication
Evaluate thinking and reasoning to determine whether
mathematical ideas, strategies and procedures have
been applied effectively.
Reflecting
Communicate thinking and justify reasoning and
generalizations, using mathematical language,
representations and technologies.
Reflect on and identify the contribution of mathematics
to their life.
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Knowledge and Understanding
 Data can be summarised and represented to support
inferences and conclusions
 Measures of location such as mean, median and
mode, and frequency and relative frequency, can be
used to explore distributions of sample data
 Sample data drawn from a given population can be
summarised, compared and represented in a variety
of ways
What deep understandings are desired?
The desired result is for learners to understand that:
 Mathematical data, in the form of activity rates, heart rates and recovery time, can be used to evaluate personal
fitness levels
 Measures of location can be used to support inferences and conclusions about data
 Representations of data, such as tables and graphs, aids used in interpreting a range of data
What essential questions will guide the inquiry?
 What data and mathematics can I use to determine a report about my overall fitness?
 What mathematical calculations will be useful in analysing my fitness?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:
 Rate is a comparison of two different measurements e.g. heart rate and recovery rate
 Tables and graphs can be used to display data
 Mean, median and mode are measures of location
 Sample data can be summarised, compared and analysed
Students will be able to:
 Calculate their heart rate before and after an activity
 Calculate the speed of recovery after an activity
 Create a table and record raw scores
 Choose a suitable graphical representation and convert data tables into graphs
 Create a frequency distribution chart
 Check the reasonableness of calculations
 Make inferences and draw conclusions from the data
 Make statements about using mathematical calculations and graphs to describe aspects of daily life
Assessment – what evidence of student understanding is needed?
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Record raw scores as a data table
Create a frequency distribution chart
Calculate mean, median and mode
Create graphs from the table data
Make inferences and draw conclusions using the data and mathematical reasoning
Assessment task outline
The assessment will require students to present a personal report which includes tables and graphs showing their overall fitness. The
report should display mathematical calculations of mean, median and mode and frequency distributions of class scores which provide
information from which comparisons and conclusions can be made against personal scores.
Literacy demands:
moderate
Numeracy demands:
The meaning of rate. Conventions used when constructing tables and graphs. Mathematics
concepts that will be useful when analysing data.
Explicit teaching required
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Discuss how mathematics might be used to help you determine your fitness level
What mathematics might you need to do?
What data might be useful?
Calculating heart rate and speed of recovery
Displaying data in different ways including tables and graphs
Calculating mean, median and mode
Making inferences and drawing conclusions using mathematical reasoning and information from tables and graphs