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Time: 5 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit has two aims: firstly, to help you read and interpret information in the form of diagrams, charts and graphs, and secondly, to give you practice in producing such diagrams yourself.
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- 1.1 Understanding scale diagrams Resource
- Plans of houses and instructions for assembling shelves, etc., often come in the form of scale diagrams. Each length on the diagram represents a length relating to the real house, the real shelves, etc....
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- 2.1 Tables Resource
- Experiments or surveys usually generate a lot of information from which it is possible to draw conclusions. Such information is called data. Data are often presented in newspapers or books.
- 2.2 Tables and percentages Resource
- Tables often give information in percentages. The table below indicates how the size of households in Great Britain changed over a period of nearly 30 years.
- 2.3 Pie charts Resource
- Pie charts are representations that make it easy to compare proportions: in particular, they allow quick identification of very large proportions and very small proportions. They are generally based on...
- 2.4 Bar charts and frequency diagrams Resource
- Pie charts are useful for showing proportions, but different types of chart have to be used for representing other kinds of data. A number of these charts are described in this section. The most well known...
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- 3.1 Positive coordinates Resource
- For many towns and cities, an individual book of street maps called an A to Z has been produced. You can look up the name of a street in the index, and it will give you the page number of the map that...
- 3.2 Negative coordinates Resource
- Up to now only those points with positive or zero coordinates have been considered. But the system can be made to cope with points involving negative coordinates, such as (−2, 3) or (−2, −3). Just as a...
- 3.3 Decimal and fraction coordinates Resource
- Where necessary, the coordinates of a point can be specified by using decimals or fractions. However, locating points whose coordinates are not whole numbers requires more precision when reading along...
- 3.4 Drawing and interpreting graphs Resource
- A graph shows the relationship between two quantities. These quantities may be very different: for instance, the price of coffee in relation to different years, or the braking distance of a car in relation...
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- 4 Open Mark quiz Resource
- Now try the quiz and see if there are any areas which you need to go over again. Click Open mark quiz.
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