The Masterplan

Following on from my previous post about GapMinder, Hans Rosling has made another inspiring talk at a TED conference.
His use of data continues to inspire me and pushes my thoughts on using this software in the classroom. With the abolition of data handling coursework next year more time will be freed up to look [...]

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At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder.
For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose [...]

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