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Histograms and Bar Graphs

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the use of bar graphs and histograms. In this data representation lesson, students investigate the proper use of bar graphs and histograms to represent data. They learn the proper geometric definitions, experience direct...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

I Know What You Did Last Summer: A Data Graphing Project

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
Young scholars participate in graphing data.  In this graphing data lesson plan, students make a stem and leaf plot of their summer activities.  Young scholars create numerous graphs on poster boards.  Students discuss the differences...
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Histograms and Bar Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to histograms, bar graphs, and the concept of class interval. They use an activity and three discussions with supplemental exercises to help students explore how data can be graphically represented (and...
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Willow Tree

Histograms and Venn Diagrams

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
There are many different options for graphing data, which can be overwhelming even for experienced mathematcians. This time, the focus is on histograms and Venn diagrams that highlight the frequency of a range of data and overlap of...
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Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect data to create different types of graphs-line, pie, and bar graphs. They use StarOffice 6.0 to create graphs.
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Graphing With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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Play It

For Teachers 6th - 9th
There are a number of activities here that look at representing data in different ways. One activity, has young data analysts conduct a class survey regarding a new radio station, summarize a data set, and use central tendencies to...
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Virginia Department of Education

Graphs

For Students 8th Standards
Examine different types of graphs as a means for analyzing data. Math scholars identify the type of graph from a series of data displays and then develop questions to match each one. Then, given a scatter plot of height versus age data,...
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Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
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Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore number relationships by participating in a data collection activity. In this statistics lesson, students participate in a role-play activitiy in which they own a scrap material storefront that must replenish its stock....
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Statistics Canada

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students practice using graphing tools to make tables, bar charts, scatter graphs, and histograms, using census data. They apply the concept of measures of central tendency, examine the effects of outliers. They also write inferences and...
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Mass/Weight/Data/Graphing-What Is The Mass of a Dinosaur?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students determine the mass of various "dinosaur eggs" and graph their data. In this mass, weight, data and graphing lesson plan, students measure the mass of different weighted "dinosaur eggs". They record their data and transfer it to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Puppy Weights

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Nobody can say no to puppies, so lets use them in math! Your learners will take puppy birth weights and organize them into different graphs. They can do a variety of different graphs and detail into the problem based on your classroom...
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Mean, Median, Mode, etc.

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore the concept of mean, median, and mode with pupils. They estimate the length of a string or the number of M&M's in a jar. Then find the mean, median, and mode of the class' estimates.
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Dealing with Data

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders collect and analyze data.  In the seventh grade data analysis lesson plan, 7th graders explore and/or create frequency tables, multiple bar graphs, circle graphs, pictographs, histograms, line plots, stem and leaf plots,...
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Timed Multiplication Test Graphs

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use the tools of data analysis for managing information. They solve problems by generating, collecting, organizing, displaying histograms on bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs, pictographs and charts. Students determine...
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Graph a Panther's Diet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the diet of panthers. In this interpreting data lesson plan, students collect data on the panther's diet and chart the data in bar and pie graphs.
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Data Analysis and Probability

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students make their own puzzle grid that illustrates the number of sit-ups students in a gym class did in one minute, then they make a histogram for this same data. Then they title their graph and label the scales and axes and graph the...
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Real Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify real graphs and misleading graphs. In this algebra lesson, students surf the Internet for real life scenarios where graphs are used in a misleading way as well as in a correct way.
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SkittleGraphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover how to make a bar graph. Each student receives a bag of Skittles candy. They make a bar graph which documents the colors found in the bag. At the end of the lesson, the Skittles are eaten. Fun!
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Dynamite Data

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders rotate through a variety of stations designed to offer practice in manipulating data. They sort, tally and count items and then create bar graphs, tables, and pie graphs to record their findings.
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Bar and Histograms (What Would You Use: Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice creating bar graphs using a given set of data. Using the same data, they create a group frequency chart and histograms. They must decide the best graph for the given set of data. They share their graphs with the...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils create various types of graphs. They go to suggested websites to collect data and create graphs to organize the data. Then they answer questions according to their graph.
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Surveying During a Basketball Game

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders conduct a survey at a high school basketball game. They compile and present the data as histograms or bar graphs.

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