Recognize the differences in representing categorical and numerical data. 0506.5.4

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1. Reading Charts and Graphs - In this lesson you will: read bar graphs, pie charts, and grid charts, review percentages in pie charts, and compare types of information shown in different kinds of charts.
2. Numerical and Categorical Data - In this series of three lessons, students formulate questions that can be addressed with numerical and categorical data. They then collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer those questions.
3. Practice with Data - answer questions pertaining to collecting and organizing data [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
4. Probability - online quiz
5. Quantitative Environmental Learning Project - a rich source of data based projects

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