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    Geographical Skills - 3.3 With respect to numerical and statistical skills, learners should be able to: — OCR GCSE Geography

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    Geographical Skills - 3.3 With respect to numerical and statistical skills, learners should be able to: explained

    Geographical Skills - 3.3 With respect to numerical and statistical skills, learners should be able to: covers 13 specification points, including 1.

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    demonstrate an understanding of number,… and 2. demonstrate an understanding of the…. Open a point below for its explanation and revision guidance.

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    1. 1. demonstrate an understanding of number, area and scale
    2. 2. demonstrate an understanding of the quantitative relationships between units
    3. 3. understand and correctly use proportion, ratio, magnitude and frequency
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    1. 4. understand and correctly use appropriate measures of central tendency, spread and cumulative frequency including, median, mean, range, quartiles and inter-quartile range, mode and modal class
    2. 5. calculate and understand percentages (increase and decrease) and percentiles
    3. 6. design fieldwork data collection sheets and collect data with an understanding of accuracy, sample size and procedures, control groups and reliability
    4. 7. interpret tables of data
    5. 8. describe relationships in bivariate data
    6. 9. sketch trend lines through scatter plots
    7. 10. draw estimated lines of best fit
    8. 11. make predictions; interpolate and extrapolate trends from data
    9. 12. be able to identify weaknesses in statistical presentations of data
    10. 13. draw and justify conclusions from numerical and statistical data.

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