Physical representation in mathematics: handling data

What you can learn in this unit

  • How to represent data graphically, using for example bar charts, histograms, line graphs and pie charts.
  • Some ideas to use students as physical representations to represent statistical ideas.
  • How to base students’ learning in their own context.

This unit links to the teaching requirements of the NCF (2005) and NCFTE (2009) outlined in Resource 1.