Bureau of Meteorology to change terminology for rain forecasts
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The Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) is changing the words used to describe the chances of rainfall:
Under the new system, adjectives such as patchy, scattered, widespread and isolated will be replaced with the straightforward terms slight, medium, high or very high to describe the chances of rainfall.
6 November 2014 Edit: 6 November 2014
- Topics:
- Number, Probability
- The Australian Curriculum
- Statistics and Probability, Chance, ACMSP092 Year 4 Describe possible everyday events and order their chances of occurring, ACMSP117 Year 5 Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1, ACMSP144 Year 6 Describe probabilities using fractions, decimals and percentages
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 4, Probability Year 4, AC9M4P01 describe possible everyday events and the possible outcomes of chance experiments and order, Year 6, Probability Year 6, AC9M6P01 recognise that probabilities lie on numerical scales of 0 – 1 or 0% – 100% and use estimati
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Statistics and Probability, MA3-19SP Chance, MA4-21SP Probability
- NSW Curriculum New
- Statistics and probability, Chance, MA3-CHAN Chance, MA3-CHAN-01 Chance, Probability, MA4-PRO-C-01 Probability
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