Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Circle Graph
This site shows how to set up your own pie chart for papers and projects. Very colorful and it is free.
US Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics: Create a Graph Tutorial
This tutorial walks students through how to create different types of graphs using the Create a Graph tool available on the website. Covers bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, area graphs, scatter plots, and dependent and independent...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Circle Graph
Find a quick, concise explanation of Circle/Pie Graphs. An example is given and step by step clearly explained.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Circle Graphs
On this interactive website, students practice interpreting information in circle graphs.
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.
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.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Pie Chart
Explains, with examples, what a pie chart is and how to make one. Includes a set of practice questions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Analyzing and Creating Circle Graphs
Sixth graders will be learning through exploration on how to analyze and create circle graphs and Venn diagrams.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Circle Graphs
Two problems present practice creating a circle graph from a data table. Both are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Pie Chart
Students investigate how a pie chart can be used to display data graphically. The resource includes the activity and instructor resources.
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...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Fractions and Graphs
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include showing percentages as fractions and decimals and interpreting data in a sector graph.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading Circle Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are asked to figure out the size of the shaded portions of a circle graph. They then complete a chart showing the fraction, decimal, and percentage equivalents.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: What Are Pie Charts?
This lesson defines the phrase pie chart. Students can look at a presentation and then take an online quiz.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Circle Grapher
A computer applet that will draw any circle graph with student's data input.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Pie Chart
This page briefly discusses the use of pie charts (or circle graphs) in representing data. Provides detailed information for understanding.
Other
Abp: P Ie Charts
This site from Accelerators and Beam Physics Group produces pertinent information regarding pie charts. Shows an example of a pie chart and breaks it up for easy learning.
US Department of Education
Nces: How to Create a Pie Chart
Resource from the National Center for Education Statistics provides tools and steps for creating printable pie charts online. Fill in the information, click the necessary buttons, and you have created a pie chart!
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Kinds of Graphs
An interactive web lesson introduces five types of graphs to students and allows them to practice matching the names to examples.
Other
Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data
Student worksheet with explanation of pie, bar, and line graphs, the parts of a graph, and the definition of mean, median, and mode. This summary is followed by an exercise for each type of graph within a scientific context.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...