Monthly Archives: March 2012

Constructing Our New Home

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Passy

Image Source: http://www.nicolerene.com The future permanent home of Passy’s World of Mathematics is currently being built. In the meantime you can keep using our old site by clicking the link below. http://passyworldofmathematics.wordpress.com/ Enjoy Passy

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Real World Charts and Graphs

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Passy

Image Source: http://www.pacificu.edu In this lesson we are looking at some real world graphs. The idea is to show people how different types of graphs can be useful for real life situations. First we take a look at Health and … Continue reading →

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Stem and Leaf Plots

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Passy

It is quite a bit of work to manually make a bar chart of a set of data results in a Mathematics Workbook. So in the 1960’s, John Tukey came up with a simplified version of the standard bar chart, … Continue reading →

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Misleading Graphs

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Passy

Image Source: http://www2.fiu.edu Graphs are often deliberately made misleading when put on TV or in Newspapers. The graph shown below is designed to make it look like after a small drop in unemployment, it started to go up and get … Continue reading →

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Online Graph Makers

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Passy

Microsoft Excel is great for making Charts and Graphs. However we can also use some free Graph makers on the Internet for doing most of the basic graphs we need for mathematics. In this lesson we look at How to … Continue reading →

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