Data – Data Literacy (Gr6)

Skills:

• Collection & Organization – describe the difference between discrete and continuous data, and provide examples of each (2:00)
• Collection & Organization – collect qualitative data and discrete and continuous quantitative data (2:52) to answer questions of interest about a population, and organize the sets of data as appropriate, including using intervals (6:44)
• Collection & Organization – discrete and continuous quantitative data
  Collection & Organization – organize data using intervals
• Visualization – select from among a variety of graphs, including histograms and broken-line graphs, the type of graph best suited to represent various sets of data; display the data in the graphs with proper sources, titles, and labels, and appropriate scales; and justify their choice of graphs (3:11)
• Visualization – create an infographic about a data set, representing the data in appropriate ways, including in tables, histograms, and broken-line graphs, and incorporating any other relevant information that helps to tell a story about the data (8:53)
• Analysis – determine the range as a measure of spread and the measures of central tendency for various data sets, and use this information to compare two or more data sets (12:33)
• Analysis – analyse different sets of data presented in various ways, including in histograms and broken-line graphs and in misleading graphs, by asking and answering questions about the data, challenging preconceived notions, and drawing conclusions, then make convincing arguments and informed decisions (8:17)