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Building Critical Thinking Skills with Graphs

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

One of the Quantitative Reasoning Outcomes for Integrated Quantitative Learning coursesĀ  is that students should be able to analyze, summarize, and interpret quantitative data and effectively communicate the findings.
One way to achieve that outcome is to have students practice interpreting data. Possible assignments include:

Giving students a good graph or a poor graph and ask them [...]

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VoiceThreads for Learning

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Voicethreads is a tool that allows you and your students to make comments about graphic content. It looks like this:

Uses

Explaining graphs and charts
Language practice
Sharing and critiquing student work
Evaluating graphical information
Art critique

Process

Create an account (Free)
Upload images or [...]

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