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Statistics and probability play an important part in our lives and are particularly useful in helping us make wise decisions. This exercise will help the students see that there are mathematical rules that can effect even our use of the English language. GRADES/SUBJECT: Appropriate for Grades 7 though 12. Mathematics and English language. PURPOSE: This exercise re-enforces the value of statistical research and provides an interesting view of the way people write.

Jackie's presentation form the Amesa 2009 conference

Jackies presentation at the AMesa2009 conference. You will find the discussion of this presentation and the podcast here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/the-interpretation-of

A great lesson with video on how to get your learners to use Google sketcup to measure stuff.

The definition of median and mean and the difference between the two terms is poorly understood by many people and while in many data sets, there is only a marginal difference between the two from a practical standpoint, there is sometimes a stark difference between the two.

Two articles: The first one gives a good perspective of the difference between mean and median and how people manipulate the data and teh second one give s an overview of oil prices vs petrol prices (american perspective)

A site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more."

An index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. Is his assumptions feasable? What can we do with this data?

"The software used on the video is Gapminder, and the presenter is Hans Rosling,is one of the founders of the Gapminder Foundation. The video shows how statistics is applied in the real world."

Thank you Jeannee!! "This investigation I did in term 1 2011. It was based on basic currency exchange and budgeting. "