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ACTIVITY B

Interpreting graphs and charts

El Nino or El No-No?
You're part of a scientific team trying to predict the winter's weather at this site, exploring El Nino cycles and their influence on weather patterns. To do this, you need to gather data, create and analyze charts and graphs, look at and evaluate other data, and share your predictions with the world.

Graphing Savvy: Giving Students a Sense of Mathematical Power
Graphs and charts play such an important role in everyday life as well as mathematics. That's why author Sue McMillen of Buffalo State College presents several activities teachers can use to help students see how the same data displayed on a variety of scales can skew a mental picture, but not the truth.

Create a Graph
This interactive allows users to create area, line or bar graphs, as well as pie charts, along with finding out their properties, strengths, and weaknesses.

Percentages

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Percentages
This manipulative allows users to enter values and compute percentages , as well as view the circle graph that shows the relationship between percentages and the whole.

Thirteen Online: Exploring the Smithsonian
This webquest sends students on a tour of the Smithsonian, uncovering the information they need to answer questions about percentages.

BBC Skillwise - Comparing Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages
This site provides worksheets, teacher hints, and online games to help students compare the relative values of these three concepts, along with support for what the site calls "tutors"-teacher or family members.

Decimals

Fraction Decimal Conversion
Students can practice their knowledge of equivalents at this site, using either a matching game, flash cards, or the traditional game of Concentration. They can also use this site to make their own math games to share with their peers.

BBC Maths File - Saloon Snap
An interactive game for students, this BBC Education site offers students a chance to practice finding equivalent decimals, fractions, and percentages.

Decimal Switch
This simple but creative game gives students a chance to put decimals in ascending order.

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