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Putting Math in Motion with Calculator-Based Labs.
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Doerr, Helen M.; Rieff, Cathieann; Tabor, Jason – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Many students have difficulties in interpreting position versus time graphs. Presents an activity involving calculator-based motion labs that allows students to bring these graphs to life by turning their own motion into a graph that can be analyzed, investigated, and interpreted in terms of how they actually moved. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Technology, Graphing Calculators, Graphs
Displaying Data Is As Easy As Pie! Polar Area Graphs: Early Pie Charts.
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Johnson, Art – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents different real-world mathematics activities on data display and data analysis with pie charts from different time periods. (ASK)
Descriptors: Charts, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Graphs
Graphing in the Information Age: Using Data from the World Wide Web.
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Dixon, Juli K.; Falba, Christy J. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1997
Describes five activities using the World Wide Web that teach students to experience searching, locating, and organizing data. Students learn to summarize statistics, analyze data, make conjectures, and communicate information. They interpret or create bar graphs, line graphs, histograms, and circle graphs. (PVD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Data Interpretation