iPads for Learning

• Mathematics
• Students with Disabilities

What you can use it for

Numbers is a fully featured spreadsheet tool, with everything you need to organise data, perform calculations and manage lists. Numbers also allows your charts and data to share the screen with text blocks and images to create compelling data-driven packages.

Students are learning to...

use a spreadsheet to perform calculations and present findings

What you can use it for

Carry out a quick classroom survey to collect some data. Ask students to use the Charting tool to add rows and name labels to create a variety of charts such as bar and pie. Discuss the colour coding, size of section and how the data is presented. Ask probing questions to support students to analyse the data.

Students are learning to...

develop an understanding of creating charts and selecting the most appropriate format to represent data.

What you can use it for

Collect data on purchases from the supermarket and /or green grocer, for example a shopping docket. Use Numbers to categorise the food, for example according to the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and create a graph. Interpret the graph. How difficult was it to categorise the food? What improvements could be suggested in regards to food intake? What are the limitations of just using purchases from the supermarket and/green grocer? Ask students to write up a report of their findings or contribute their thoughts to a class wiki.

Students are learning to...

collect, classify, present, analyse and evaluate data to inform their understanding of healthy eating

What you can use it for

Develop a plot profile by determining the main events of a story. This can occur during the reading of the text as a means of summarising each chapter, or after reading to recall the significant events. Number the main events in the order they occur. Then rate the ‘excitement level’ of each event. This information can be entered onto a Numbers spreadsheet and a line graph created. The vertical axis recording the Excitement level (1-10, with 10 being the highest excitement level) and the horizontal axis using the number code to record the event. Share your Excitement graph with peers and identify similarities and differences.

Students are learning to...

summarise text and to present information in a different format by moving from text to graph and then identifying similarities and differences to develop a greater understanding of the story

Tags

chart, data, events, graph, graphs, mathematics, spreadsheet, story telling

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