What Should You Expect From This Lesson?

At the end of this lesson you will be able to: [1] Interpret information tables; [2] Read line graphs and bar charts; [3] Construct ungrouped frequency tables; [4] Understand, compute and interpret the mean, mode and range of a set of data.

How To Carry Out This Lesson At Home:

Lesson [1] Interpret information tables

Watch the following videos:
1. Introduction to reading tables – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPiD89OU3A (watch from 00:27 onwards)
2. Interpreting tables: an example – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zR1xqxpQfg
3. Reading tables – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwaaV5MvAc

Suggested Practice:
Data Handling Worksheet – Worksheet 1 (document attached in the Resources Section)

Check your answers (document attached in the Resources Section)

Lesson [2] Read line graphs and bar charts

Watch the following video:
1. Learning About Line Graphs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2YkbdNORp8
2. Reading a Bar Graph – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDYjEJCHUM

Suggested Practice:
Data Handling Worksheet – Worksheet 2 (document attached in the Resources Section)

Check your answers (document attached in the Resources Section)

Lesson [3] Construct ungrouped frequency tables

Watch the following videos:
1. Frequency Distributions (Ungrouped Data) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqpbaN3FSY (watch up to 6:04)
2. Ungrouped Frequency Tables including the “Tally” column – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMLuz7WouQ

Suggested Practice:
Data Handling Worksheet – Worksheet 3 (document attached in the Resources Section)

Check your answers (document attached in the Resources Section)

Lesson [4] Understand, compute and interpret the mean, mode and range of a set of data

Watch the following videos:
1. The Mean – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HEzNTGeZ4 (watch up to 4:18)
2. The Mode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1HEzNTGeZ4 (watch from 07:33 to 08:33)
3. Another example of Mean and Mode and including the Range – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mQ9kD-i9I (watch the following sections 00:00 to 1:48 and 02:50 to 03:41)

Suggested Practice:
Data Handling Worksheet – Worksheet 4 (document attached in the Resources Section)

Check your answers (document attached in the Resources Section)

Acknowledgements: Mathematics Heads of Department