Quantitative information in texts | Reading | Khan Academy

How can a chart or a graph improve an argument? What's the most efficient way to describe information? How can I convince the neighborhood council to ban peanuts at the bake sale? Let's try to answer those questions the only way I know how: with made-up charts and the world's oldest GIF.

Uploaded 18-06-20

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Attribution: Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 photographs of a running horse are some of the earliest motion pictures. They're in the public domain, and you should absolutely look them up, and yes, I know that's a really strange spelling of 'Edward'. He adopted the Anglo-Saxon spelling in 1882.

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