Essential Questions:
How can you use a table to collect and organize data?
How can you display data using a variety of graphs?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of specific graphs?
What kinds of questions can be answered form analyzing data presented in graph form.
Vocabulary:
Data- Information
Categories- Ways to separate things (blue is a category of color)
Categorical Data- Data that is not numbers (example, favorite color, sport you play, etc)
Bar Graph- Graph that uses bars to compare data
Dot Plot- Graph that shows dots above a label to show data
Frequency Table- table that shows how often something happens
Pictograph- Graph that uses pictures to show data
Titles- Next to graphs that explain what the graph is able
Labels- Y and X axis should be labeled to explain the data
Scaled Intervals- Explain how close the numbers are
Here's a fun game for graphs
http://www.abcya.com/fuzz_bugs_graphing.htm
This website has a whole bunch of links to great websites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/data_analysis_math_third_3rd_grade.htm
This website is perfect for practicing interpreting data
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/interpretingdata
Here's a nice game for analyzing dating
http://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/bar_graph/activities/favourite_colors_bar_chart/
This website is great at explaining bar graphs
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/e/readinggraphs3l.cfm
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