Independent Evaluations of Fathom version 1 in use by Teachers
These detailed reports were independently commissioned by three UK evaluation services. They report teachers actual experiences of installing, using and benefitting from the use of Fathom to explore data and statistics.
“Teachers could use it to demonstrate data handling at key stages 3 and 4, eg to explore the relationship between variables and to look at the outcome of probability experiments. Students can use Fathom to create datasets, graphs, summary statistics and hypotheses tests to help them interpret data.”
“Students progressed quickly from generating results to interpreting the results. Some students progressed to looking at the effects of outliers on the data and others changed the data to find out what effect that had on the results that they had obtained. This was a more advanced outcome than I had anticipated.”
“This product’s strength lies in its speed and flexibility. It is very easy to change data in Fathom: students can see what happens when outliers are added or removed, since the graphs and summary statistics change instantly when data items are changed. Fathom allows students to test hypotheses and investigate ‘what if’ questions successfully. The speed with which our students could produce results encouraged them to tackle the more challenging, and important, task of interpreting their result." Full Review
“Fathom is an excellent tool that enables the analysis of a wide variety
of data.”
“Lends itself amicably to support Key Stage 4 National Curriculum, Data
Handling, including providing a suitable medium to aid the completion of GCSE
Data Handling coursework.” Full
Review
“Fathom Dynamic Data is an excellent program which supports nearly all aspects of data handling and statistical analysis within the Key Stage 4 Mathematics Curriculum. It comes with a wide range of support material that is well designed and easy to follow. Used with an interactive whiteboard, this would be an excellent resource for teacher demonstrations or for working with small to large groups. It is relatively easy to design your own practical or problems to be solved, and data from the Internet and spreadsheets can be imported easily. Fathom supports problem solving using a wide range of functions, formulae and charts, including arithmetic, conditional, distributions, logical, random number, statistical, text and trigonometric functions, and bar charts, column, histogram, quantile plots, ribbon plots, scatter diagrams, split charts and cumulative frequency.” Full Review
The eValuate Service
Fathom Review:
http://www.learnevaluations.co.uk/evalResults.aspx?PID=127
SchoolZone
Fathom Review:
http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/pip/evaluations/evaluation.asp?p=CHAR-FATHOM
TEEM (Teachers Evaluating
Educational Multimedia) Fathom Review
http://www.teem.org.uk/findresource/element?element_id=1798
Minimum System Requirements: Windows: Pentium-based system or equivalent, Windows 98 or later, 32mb RAM, 150mb free disk space. Macintosh: PowerPC-based system, Mac OS 10.1.5 or later, 150mb free disk space. Published by KCP.
Single user £75 + vat, 10-user £159 + vat, 50-user £350 + vat, Site £475 + vat. Student Licence £19 + vat. (Upgrades also available.)
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