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"Online social network sites like Facebook and Twitter became common destinations for young people. Throughout the world, young people are logging in, creating elaborate profiles, publicly articulating their relationships with other participants, and writing extensive comments back and forth. South Africa was not left behind and Facebook became increasingly popular amongst people of all ages. Figure 1 below gives a summary of the total number of Facebook users in South Africa from March 2011 to July 2011. Study Figure 2.1 and answer the questions that follow:"

Really cute assignment from Jeannee

Loads of links to sites with statistical data sets in a variety of fields.

Thanx Sarah for sybmitting this!

Thanx Hanlie!! See tags for contexts.

Nice article to make a mathematical literacu=y stats lesson out of seing hat our learners are loving their soicla media sites. Could get them to research Mxit adoption....

Here is a test Sarah did with her Grade 10 Maths Lit class. It's on Scale & Measurement and basic statistics.

Sarah made this project about painting, tiling and carpeting a house.

What is inflation? How do I draw up a personal budget? How do I draw up a family budget? Growing my money with simple and compound interest . It also have a Summative assessment How can I avoid the dangers of debt? Saving and investing in my future? What do banks do? How can insurance protect me? What are my consumer rights and responsibilities?

Here is an exmaple of how students use powerpoint and slideshare to combine their class research project into a comprehensive report for comment by the peers and fans :-). I do wonder how they got everybody to reveal their weights...

Would you play lotto if you know more about propability?

This tool will draw 6 random numbers from 1 to as high as you like. The numbers are random and will be different every time. Makes a fun way to do probability exercises, extra credit questions where students have to guess the number(s) that will come up, and many other clever activities we're sure you'll think of. Have fun!

Basic interactive resources on interpreting data

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans .......

Numbers can't "talk," but they can tell you as much as your human sources can. But just like with human sources, you have to ask! So what should you ask a number? Well, mathematicians have developed an entire field - statistics - dedicated to getting answers out of numbers. Now, you don't have to have a degree in statistics in order to conduct an effective "interview" with your data. But you do need to know a few basics. Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know...

A link page with great pointers to data sets. (US nd world) and basic infomation on how to find data