Go Figure: The Week In Numbers is a weekly feature on the BBC News Magazine Monitor. Similar in nature to the
Week in Pictures,
Go Figure: The Week In Numbers highlights interesting statistics from news stories. The statistics are presented with interesting pictures or drawings as backgrounds. Each statistic is linked to a corresponding news article.
Applications for Education
Getting students interested in reading news articles is one of the challenges that social studies teachers often face. I have found that visual prompts like those found in
The Week In Numbers and
The Week In Pictures can often be good for sparking students' curiosities about news articles.
