are a "tool to think with" and as such, have no agenda of their own. Instead, they are designed to provide "essential fundamentals at a glance" and allow the user to interpret the data according to ...

A once-valued skill has fallen by the wayside -- but our kids will need it even more than we do. You probably have a pretty good idea how well your teenager can write, how good her reading ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

We evaluated the use of data intensive case studies and small group discussion on students' quantitative abilities in a large environmental science lecture course. Students were asked to interpret ...

A time graph is a line graph which shows you data that has been collected over a period of time. There is a title which tells you what the data in the time graph is about. The horizontal (X) and ...

Each line segment of a distance-time graph represents one part of a journey. A distance-time graph, sometimes referred to as a travel graph, is a way of representing a journey. It is helpful to have ...