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Succeed with maths: part 2
Week 8: Communicating with data
References

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Week 8: Communicating with data
Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
Acknowledgements

Week 1
Introduction
1 Using units of measurement
2 The International System (SI)
3 Length: SI units
- 3.1 Converting between SI units and length
4 Length: imperial measurements
5 Relating the SI and imperial systems of measurement
- 5.1 Converting between different unit systems
6 Home improvement project
7 This week's quiz
8 Summary
Acknowledgements

Week 1 practice quiz

Week 2
Introduction
1 Using units of measurement
2 Mass
3 Volume
- 3.1 Volume: the imperial units
- 3.2 Relating the two systems: volume
4 Less familiar units
5 This week's quiz
6 Summary
Acknowledgements

Week 2 practice quiz

Week 3
Introduction
- Introduction
1 Exploring patterns and processes
- 1.1 Pascal’s triangle
- 1.2 Pascal’s triangle – a closer look
2 Looking for relationships
- 2.1 Finding a word formula
3 Real-life examples of using formulas
4 Tips for using a formula
5 This week's quiz
6 Summary
Acknowledgements

Week 3 practice quiz

Week 4
Introduction
1 Your formulas: using a spreadsheet
- 1.1 Finding the balance
- 1.2 Spreadsheet formulas
2 Your own formulas
- 2.1 Understanding the number trick
- 2.2 Another number trick
3 Doing and undoing
- 3.1 Doing some doing and undoing
4 Rearranging formulas
- 4.1 Time formula
5 Inequalities: greater than or less than?
6 This week's quiz
7 Summary
Acknowledgements

Week 4 compulsory badge quiz

Week 5
Introduction
1 Big and small
- 1.1 Powers of 10
2 Scientific notation and large numbers
3 Roots
- 3.1 Square roots in power notation
- 3.2 Square roots of negative numbers
4 This week's quiz
5 Summary
References
Acknowledgements

Week 5 practice quiz

Week 6
Introduction
1 Geometry
2 Perimeters
3 Areas
4 Volumes
- 4.1 Volume formulas
5 This week's quiz
6 Summary
Acknowledgements

Week 6 practice quiz

Week 7
Introduction
1 Averages
2 Measuring the spread of a data set
3 More about data
4 Tables
5 This week's quiz
6 Summary
References
Acknowledgements

Week 7 practice quiz

Week 8
Introduction
1 Graphs and charts
2 Line graphs
3 Bar charts
4 Pie charts
5 Reading a graph with caution
6 This week's quiz
7 Summary
Tell us what you think
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References
Acknowledgements

Week 8 compulsory badge quiz
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Fáilte Ireland (2004) Tourism in 2004 [Online]. Available at www.failteireland.ie/FailteIreland/media/WebsiteStructure/Documents/3_Research_Insights/3_General_SurveysReports/TourismFacts2004.pdf?ext=.pdf (Accessed 19 November 2014).

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