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Nordmoe, Eric – Teaching Statistics, 1998
Presents an outdoor activity requiring students to collect data and suggests some possible applications of the data. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Guengerich, Susan – Illinois Mathematics Teacher, 1998
Presents an activity in which students study statistical concepts using data from Super Bowl games. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education, Football, Mathematics Activities
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Speitel, Tom; And Others – Science Teacher, 1996
Describes methods for creating integrated multimedia documents using recent advances in print, audio, and video digitization that bring added usefulness to computers as data acquisition, processing, and presentation tools. Discusses advantages of digital documentation. (JRH)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Documentation, Multimedia Materials
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Cox, Pam; Bridges, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Provides a cooperative-learning activity in which students calculate the horsepower of an individual by collecting and analyzing data. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Data Processing, Group Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Oleson, Vicki L. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents an activity to integrate literature into the mathematics curriculum that is an interesting springboard to problem solving, an opportunity to research famous mathematicians, and a vehicle to enhance the understanding of mathematics concepts. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Literature
Litecky, Charles R.; Lamkin, Tim – 1984
This curriculum guide for an advanced course in data processing is for use as a companion publication to a textbook or textbooks; references to appropriate textbooks are given in most units. Student completion of assignments in Volume I, available separately (see ED 220 604), is a prerequisite. Topics covered in the 18 units are introduction,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Computer Science, Computer Software
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Rosenbaum, Roberta – Journal of Education for Business, 1986
Appropriate strategies for teaching students to interpret and understand quantitative data in marketing, management, accounting, and data processing are described. Accompanying figures illustrate samples of percentage markups, trade discounts, gross earning, gross commissions, accounting entries, balance sheet entries, and percentage problems. (CT)
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration, Critical Thinking, Data Processing
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Rubink, William L.; Taube, Sylvia R. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Describes a field-tested interdisciplinary unit activity that involves collecting data on honeybees. Students gain hands-on experience with collecting, transforming, and analyzing data in this activity by using actual techniques employed by entomologists, the scientists who study insects. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Entomology, Insects, Integrated Activities
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Strutchens, Marilyn E. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents an activity using national achievement data to involve students in a project on data collection and statistics while learning about their attitudes toward and beliefs about mathematics. This activity presents a good opportunity to talk about various interpretations of data and allows students to examine and discuss their attitudes about…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Data Processing, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Spangler, David B. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents an activity in which students use mathematical thinking and applications to analyze Major League Baseball home run data. (ASK)
Descriptors: Baseball, Data Processing, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Activities
Southeast Community Coll., Lincoln, NE. – 1983
Developed by high school teachers and junior college instructors in cooperation with representatives of business and industry, these materials are designed to help students move from class to class, from secondary to postsecondary education, and from school to employment. The materials consist of student outcomes; competencies for job, advanced…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education
Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1993
This guide is intended for use in a course to help students become familiar with computer disk operating systems and the applications of various types of computer software. The first third of the guide contains the following: a profile of the critical skills required for the Canadian work force, a flowchart of the recommended sequence of studies…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Software, Courseware, Data Processing
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Jolliffe, Flavia – Teaching Statistics, 1999
The ability to undertake approximate calculations and to get a rough feel for data is an important skill which should not be overlooked. Presents some ideas for teaching and assessing approximate calculation. Contains 13 references. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Rosenzweig, Roy – International Journal of Oral History, 1984
Microcomputers can offer much assistance in one of the major problems that faces virtually every oral history program--organizing, manipulating, and making available the vast quantities of historical data collected. How to automate an oral history program is described. The database management system dBASE II is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Higher Education, Local History
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Hunt, Gordon – Teaching Statistics, 1998
Describes an activity that engages pupils in the whole statistical process from collecting data to interpreting the results. Discusses the importance of these activities in developing knowledge, skills, understanding, and ability in problem solving. (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
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