Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Interpreting Line Graphs
This site is a lesson on creating and interpreting a line graph. It explains how a line graph is created and then asks questions about what is learned from the data. Students type in open responses, and answers and feedback follow.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Broken Line Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers creating and interpreting broken-line graphs.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Double Line Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Construct and interpret double line graphs.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Push Ups
This is a tutorial on line graphs including when, how, and why one might choose to use them and how to interpret the data when it is complete. This one is to reach a goal for the number of push ups needed to win the Presidential Fitness...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Data Display and Graphs
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource focuses on graphing data. In the video portion, students will see how math is involved in the display of merchandise in stores. The accompanying interactive component provides an exploration...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Orange Trees, Olive Trees: Line Graphs
Explore even and odd numbers, fractions, counting, and line graphs with Scott amidst the olive and orange trees.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
PBS
Pbs: Location Graphs
Use your skills of deduction to fill in the missing information and demonstrate your expertise at interpreting graphs. This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent data and provides an opportunity to...
PBS
Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs
This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Graphs, Charts, and Tables: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson about graphs, charts, and tables, students will be able to interpret and compare data from graphs (including circle, bar, and line graphs), charts, and tables.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Graphing
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Given a set of data, students will understand how to correctly draw a line or bar graph, interpret its patterns, and find the slope in the case of a line graph.
The Franklin Institute
Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Reading Graphs
A good introduction to reading bar, line, and double line graphs, and drawing and reading Venn diagrams. Contains definitions and examples of these types of charts and graphs as well as practice exercises that ask you to answer questions...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Election Data
Using actual Alberta provincial election results, students have the opportunity to interpret election data using a variety of graph types. Pictographs, line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, and data tables are covered in this...
US Department of Education
Nces Kids: Creating an Area Graph
This is where you will find step by step directions explaining how to create an area graph. Complete each step and click on the next tab. Directions are simple and clear.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Graphing Proportional Relationships
Given a proportional relationship, students will be able to graph a set of data from the relationship and interpret the unit rate as the slope of the line.
Khan Academy
Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
BBC
Bbc: Representing Data
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.
Other
Nearpod: Interpreting Slope & Y Intercept
In this lesson on interpreting slope and y-intercept, 8th graders will learn how to identify the slope and the y-intercept of a line in order to identify if a proportion is demonstrated.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Equations of Lines
In this task, 8th graders are presented with two intersecting line graphs and their linear equations. No values are shown on the axes. They are asked to interpret the constants in the equations in terms of their graphs, and make some...
Student Achievement Partners
Illustrative Mathematics: Equations of Lines [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students are to interpret graphs with equations of lines.