Numeracy Skills

2. Interpreting Information

In this short course you will learn how to:

• extract information that is relevant to a given question or task from a range of sources – verbal, graphical, numerical, etc;
  
  
• compare information in different forms, and translate information from one form into another, e.g. from a graph into a verbal statement, from a data into a chart;
  
  
• discuss the advantages and disadvantages (limitations) of different ways of presenting information.