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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Circle Graph Activity

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This lesson will allow the student to work through three stations. The stations will focus on creating and analyzing circle graphs. The students will be using technology to create their graphs along with a hands-on activity using M&M's.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Circle Graph Activity

For Teachers 6th
This lesson plan will allow the student to work through three stations. The stations will focus on creating and analyzing circle graphs. The students will be using technology to create their graphs along with a hands on activity using M...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Circle Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Circle Graphs to Make Bar Graphs

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Create a bar graph using data displayed in a circle graph.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyzing and Creating Circle Graphs

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be learning through exploration on how to analyze and create circle graphs and Venn diagrams.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Percents and Circle Graphs 1 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students calculate the percent of the total income for sources of income and expenses. Learners then use this information to create a circle graph. The handout is available in PDF format.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Percents and Circle Graphs 2 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students calculate the percent of the total expenses for sources of income and expenses. Learners then use this information to create a circle graph. The handout is available in PDF format.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Circle Graph Analysis and Creation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site, which is provided for by WNET, gives a great way to practice using circle graphs through these exercises. One is analyzing a pie graph from the Census Bureau and the other creating pie charts using government data.
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US Department of Education

National Center for Education Statistics: Create a Graph Tutorial

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Grandparents and Special Friends Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson was designed for our Grandparents and Special Friends day. It can be used for any visitation day, or an open house. The lesson is designed to review percent of a whole and the sector of the circle representing the percentage....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today the Next Frontier for Flight

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity provides students the opportunity to gain experience in creating circle graphs on the calculator and provides an excellent real-world review of computation with percents.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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University of Vienna (Austria)

The Graphs of Sin, Cos, and Tan Maths Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This applet allows the user to create the graphs of sin, cos, and tan by moving a scroll bar. The user can watch the unit circle and the graph simultaneously to see how the two are related. The user may also choose to see the angle...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Make a Pie

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will survey their classmates and construct circle graphs to display their results. Students will produce circle graphs using a compass and protractor, and then with an interactive computer program.This lesson plan was...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students use ideas of ratio and proportion to investigate various ways to make a circle graph. Students create graphs to display the probabilities of the different sums that can be generated with two number cubes. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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US Department of Education

Nces: How to Create a Pie Chart

For Students 9th - 10th
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!
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
Interactive
Other

Meta Chart: Create a Pie Chart

For Students 9th - 10th
Design and share pie charts with this web-based tool.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Conic Flyer

For Students 9th - 10th
"This applet allows the user to create graphs of conic sections. Using slider bars, one can manipulate the function to change the constant values and view the effects of those changes."
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Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Titanic Tales

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students interpret data tables and graphs. They find percentages, and create circle graphs to display data.