Numbers as Story Tellers
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fno.or fno.or g g Numbers as Story Tellers Why do we need them? Can we trust them? How do we get to know them well? tp://www.fno.org/oct04/numeracy.ppt.htm
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Why do we need them? Can we trust them? How do we get to know them well?. Numbers as Story Tellers. http://www.fno.org/oct04/numeracy.ppt.htm. What’s the story here?. What’s the story here?. 1969 1976 1925 1922 1937 1973 1933 1948 1944 1904 1981 1872 1918 1860 1960 1876 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Numbers as Story Tellers
Why do we need them?Can we trust them?How do we get to know them well?
http://www.fno.org/oct04/numeracy.ppt.htm
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What’s the story here?
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What’s the story here?Founding Dates of NZ Wineries
1975 1980 1973 1974 1943 1902 1947 1942 1937 1983 1934 1936 1935 1902 1937 1961 1979
1969197619251922193719731933 19481944190419811872191818601960 18761980196719741977197919811978
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Do Numbers Ever Lie?
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“Life is getting better!”
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Maths vs. Numeracy The doing Memorized patterns Cooking by recipe
------ vs. ------- Figuring stuff out Solving unusual problems The bigger picture of literacies and understanding
Cooking for real Weaving webs of meaning
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Numbers: What are they good for?
Counting Describing Measuring Mixing Building Cooking Planning Predicting Accounting Selling Understanding
Digging to China? Finding the difficult truth?Telling stories
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Why bother?Consumer issuesCitizenship issues
Employment issues
Invention and discovery issues
Others?
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Home-Made Collections
PetsPatterns of behavior
InterviewsExperimentsObservations
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BOM
What can we do with all those numbers?
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What are the Questions?
The BOM provides lessons that might prove useful.
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Serial Questioners
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Exploring vs. Describing
What’s going on?What’s the story?
What is really happening?
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Figuring Out vs. Describing
Why do you suppose?
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Predicting vs. Describing
What are the chances that X will happen?
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Critiquing vs. Accepting
ChallengingDebunkingWonderingAnalyzing
# Jobs
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Number of Jobs
# Jobs
Life is getting better!
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Number Stories
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Numeracy in the News
http://ink.news.com.au/mercury/mathguys/mercury.htm
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Chance and Data from MANSW
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/mansw/chance.htm
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EDNA Theme Page
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page456.html
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Crunching NumbersExploring the World with Data
http://fnopress.com/CRUNCH.htm
