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>VITAL CPD - http://www.vital.ac.uk29th January 2013

>You can count on Geography....

>Alan Parkinson

Image: Geographical Association

“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.”H.G. WellsThat day is now ??

Part of my degree...

Where is numeracy in

Geography ??

I-USE Statistics in Geography

I-USE Statistics in Geography

http://iusestatsinedu.blogspot.co.uk/

Teacher TrainingWeb 2.0 toolkit

Lesson resources

Partners from 6 EU countries...

Which data ?Weather / Population / River discharge /

Development / Controlled Assessment

What do you do with the data ?

QuantitativeQualitative

QuantitativeQualitative

You can only predict things after they’ve happened.

Earthquake prediction ?Tsunami warning system ?

Infographics

What would you find useful ?

MDG Apps...

"While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without"Frederick Mosteller