Level 2 Data Handling

This is an introduction to Data Handling for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets and teaching slides.
The resource is intended to introduce students to the concept of data, including:

• Introduction to data handling
• Describing data
• Constructing graphs
• Data handling project

These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:
(1) Identify uses of data in everyday life, e.g. price comparisons, surveys
(2) Identify basic approaches to data collection, e.g. record sheets, tally system, audio-visual records
(3) Interpret basic data of two criteria, e.g. more/less of one class than another, bigger/smaller etc.
(4) Construct basic representations to communicate data with two criteria, e.g. pictograms, bar charts, tally records
(5) Interpret basic representations, e.g. pictograms/bar-charts

Topics include:

• Data in everyday life
• Ways to collect data
• Types of data
• Sorting data
• Parts of a graph
• Reading graphs, e.g. pictographs, bar and pie graphs, tally marks
• What the data reveals
• Completing graphs
• Collecting information
• Presenting information gained

Can this resource be used online?
Yes, it is a digital resource. However, it is not currently fillable online. This resource is designed to be used in person. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. These worksheets are best printed, although teachers can use also them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.

What is included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets and teaching slides.
Student Worksheets: 122 Pages
Teaching Slides: 101