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What You Have Learned About Handling Data

The document discusses skills for handling data in spreadsheets, including putting values and labels in a spreadsheet, drawing graphs and bar charts to visualize spreadsheet data, using formulas to perform calculations, and sorting data. It provides examples of questions to test these skills, such as naming types of graphs, identifying the best graph for different datasets, and explaining the purpose of keys and ways to sort data.

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What You Have Learned About Handling Data

The document discusses skills for handling data in spreadsheets, including putting values and labels in a spreadsheet, drawing graphs and bar charts to visualize spreadsheet data, using formulas to perform calculations, and sorting data. It provides examples of questions to test these skills, such as naming types of graphs, identifying the best graph for different datasets, and explaining the purpose of keys and ways to sort data.

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What you have learned about

handling data
You have learned how to put values and labels into a spreadsheet;
draw graphs and bar charts that show the values in the spreadsheets; Activity World of Lizards graph
do calculations using spreadsheet formulas; and sort data into order.
World of Lizards is a pet store that
The activities on this page will let you see how much you have learned.
Activity
specialises in pet lizards. It has three
different types of lizard:

1 Name one advantage of showing data as a graph instead of a list of numbers. 1 leopard gecko
2 green anole
3 blue-tongued skink.
Here is a spreadsheet which shows how many lizards there were in the shop
2 Name two different types of graph. each year. Use the skills you have learned to make this spreadsheet.

3 Which type of graph is the best to show the following data?

3 Handling data: Making graphs


a Showing how much a child grows between the ages of 1 and 7.

Now create a graph from this data.


b Showing the number of students in a class who like different flavours
of ice cream.
Activity Label the graph
4 What is the purpose of a key on a graph? I f you have completed the World of Lizards activity, print out your graph.
If you have not completed the activity, your teacher will give you a picture
of a graph.
Write on the graph to show: 51
50 5 What are the two ways you can sort a spreadsheet list? 1 the x-axis 2 the y-axis 3 the title 4 the key 51

5 the line that shows how many green anoles there were in the shop.

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