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In this unit students develop a variety of mathematical skills including: * Data collection and organisation, using a questionnaire about grocery stores, brand names and cell-phones.* Graphical representation of the data collected using bar graphs and pie charts.* Understanding cumulative data, as well as developing and interpreting frequency tables. * Analysis of data to answer questions, using graphs and tables.* Reading and interpreting fi gures, in the context of a newspaper report concerning skills development. * Calculating the various measures of central tendency and percentages in the context of workers and wages.* Working with range and spread of data.* Identifying distortion and manipulation of information.* Identifying patterns and trends,  through working with scatterplots and broken line graphs.* Making simple predictions and comparisons.

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

Drawing graphs of real life situations Drawing and interpreting more than one graph on a system of axes. Grids, maps, compass Use and interpret scale drawings, build scale models Compare, summarise and display data - describe trends Probability and misuse of statistics in society

Basic interactive resources on interpreting data

Jackie's presentation form the Amesa 2009 conference