Oil Price & Inflation Data (xls)

Look at changes in nominal oil prices vs. inflated oil prices from 1946 to 2009. Practice making scatterplots and interpreting relationships between variables. Available in Numbers and Excel formats.

Types of Instruction: 

  • Data Activity, Data Interpretation, Data Practice, Data Work

Grades: 

  • 6, 7, 8, 9+

Subjects: 

  • Social Science

Topics: 

  • Analyzing and interpreting data, Economics, Energy

Statistical Concepts: 

  • Group comparison, Statistical questions, Time series

Skills: 

  • analyzing data, asking questions, Asking statistical questions, Comparing groups, Describing variability, graphing data, interpreting data, organizing data, representing data, Time series
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Oil Price & Inflation Data (xls)

Data Set for: 

Practice comparing groups with Gas Price data
Practice time series with Gas Price data
Practice asking questions with Gas Price data