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The @ONS has launched free resources:
Start your class on the road to confidently using data https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/usingpublicdatatoproducestatistics/learningaboutdata/navigatingnumbersexploringeconomicsandstatisticsintheclassroom
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Free and downloadable teaching resources from the Office for National Statistics📢
These help teachers and students aged 16+ develop
data literacy
statistical literacy
critical thinking skills
Sign up to access Exploring Economics and The teacher's guide to official statistics from the Office for National Statistics today https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/usingpublicdatatoproducestatistics/learningaboutdata/navigatingnumbersexploringeconomicsandstatisticsintheclassroom
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How can we help young people become more confident data-users in their studies?
The Office for National Statistics has developed free resources to help teachers and students to confidently teach and learn about data in real-life situations:
📊 Exploring Economics, part of their Navigating Numbers programme, provides classroom-ready resources for Economics, Business Studies and Geography, helping students analyse, interpret and question real-world data.
🎓 The teacher's guide to official statistics is a new CPD resource that helps teachers build confidence using official statistics and data in their teaching.
These resources aim to strengthen data literacy, statistical literacy and critical thinking skills in the education field, helping students make sense of the world around them.
Learn more and access the resources: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/usingpublicdatatoproducestatistics/learningaboutdata/navigatingnumbersexploringeconomicsandstatisticsintheclassroom
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Teachers – want to bring real-world data into your lessons?
Sign up to access all the classroom-ready toolkits from @ONS, including 3 brand new modules, that help students aged 16+ explore economic and social issues using official statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/usingpublicdatatoproducestatistics/learningaboutdata/navigatingnumbersexploringeconomicsandstatisticsintheclassroom
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Looking to build confidence teaching statistics to over-16s this year?
Try The teacher's guide to official statistics from @ONS includes four free and easy CPD modules help you use data in the classroom.
Find out more https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/usingpublicdatatoproducestatistics/learningaboutdata/navigatingnumbersexploringeconomicsandstatisticsintheclassroom
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New free ONS resources to support data literacy in the classroom
As part of their Navigating Numbers education programme, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has launched free curriculum-linked resources to help teachers bring data to life in the classroom.
Their series of eight free classroom-ready toolkits now include three brand new toolkits: Exploring Economics.
Developed with subject specialists, they support teaching in Economics, Business Studies and Geography but can also be adapted for other subjects. The resources include ready-to-use presentation slides, student toolkits and teacher guides.
These expand on the existing five free classroom toolkits, which cover:
ONS has also launched The teacher's guide to official statistics.
These four bite-sized Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules help teachers use ONS data, tools and statistics more effectively in the classroom. Learn at your own pace, focusing on the areas most relevant to you, and save on planning time while building confidence on working with real data.
These resources aim to support data and statistical literacy, helping young people develop the skills they need to understand and engage with the world around them.
Access the resources and find out more.
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