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Pass? or Prepared? Rudiger Appel's Figurine and Link to his site.

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Latest update: June 19, 2000
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On Reading a Graph

This Pass or Prepared? is based on a graph on Annie E. Casey Foundation site: Casey Foundation's 2000 Kids Count Data Online. Let's look at the graph showing
Percent of teens not attending school and not working (ages 16-19):

Based on your perusal of this graph, answer the following questions:

  1. What can we tell just by looking at the graph itself?

  2. What more can we tell by looking at the Geographic Area information to the left, above the graph?

  3. Do the data suggest that the lines could be grouped?

  4. How might you explain this grouping?

  5. If you had to write a paragraph of interpretation about this graph, what could you say?

    Figurine by Rudiger Appel. Notice that you can see three effects in the animation. Either the Variation on the Kandinsky figurine appears to turn in a clockwise direction, or in a counterclockwise direction, or it appears to open and close. Can you see all three effects? Try. Fascinated? Link to Appel's site and then link to the background he provides. Scroll down until you find a link to background.

Copright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata, June 2000. "Fair Use" encouraged.