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.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Using Bar and Line Graphs
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of using bar and line graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Line Graphs Grade 7
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make a line graph to display data over time.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Line Graphs Grades 9 10
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make a line graph to display data over time.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Line Graphs
Line graphs are shown and explained here. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a line graph. There are also line graphs with questions and answers available to help you learn how to read them.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Using Line Graphs
This site provides students practice with the concept of line graphs. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Multiple Line Graphs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make multiple line graphs to display and compare given data.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Graphs
This resource allows users to test their knowledge of graphs and graphing methods.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Line Graphs to Display Data Over Time
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Create line graphs to display how data changes over time.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Line Graphs
Explains, with examples, what a line graph is and how to construct one. Includes a set of practice questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Fitting Lines to Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Make a scatter plot of data and find the line of best fit to represent that data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Line Plots (Data With Fractions)
Practice reading and interpreting data that is graphed on line plots. The data graphed includes fractions. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints....
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.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Line Graphs and Pie Charts
Here are a few resources to use with your students when teaching about line graphs or pie charts.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given a variety of data (including line plots, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box and whisker plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams), the student...
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Data Analysis Using Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots introduced earlier, and using...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Analyzing Graphs
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to analyze graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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Other
Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara
Nceas: Graph Types
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
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.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Chameleon Graphing: Coordinate Plane
Dive into this introduction to graphing in the coordinate plane, and meet a chameleon named Sam. Sam will help guide you through graphing points on a line, using negative numbers, and graphing points in the coordinate plane.