Making sense of data

Starters

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Coffee Shop
Table of information about customers at a coffee shop. Use on paper or in spreadsheet form for discussion and practice of statistical techniques. Contributed by Janet Turner from Northampton College.

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Spreadsheet: (application/vnd.ms-excel, 18 KB)

Draw Line Graphs in Excel
Activity that shows students how to draw line graphs in Excel. Teacher notes included.

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Draw pie charts in Excel
Activity that shows students how to draw a pie chart in Excel and change its appearance. Teacher notes included.

Student information (application/msword, 790 KB) (application/pdf, 1.7 MB)

Holiday Money
Examples, exercise and experiments including currency exchange and many other topics involving direct proportionality. Teacher Notes included.

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Pie Charts
Activity that shows students how to draw a pie chart by hand. Also includes practice exercise with real data. This can also be used as follow up to draw pie charts in Excel activity. Teacher notes included.

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