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Graph It!
There is more than one way to represent data! Learners explore ways to represent data. They examine stacked graphs, histograms, and line plots. They conduct surveys and use stacked graphs, histograms, or line plots to chart the data they...
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Creating Circle Graphs with Microsoft Excel
Students create graphs of circles. In this geometry lesson, students use Microsoft Excel to create graphs. They construct the graphs using paper and pencil as well as the computer.
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Holiday Greeting Cards: A Graphing Activity
Students examine statistics about the popular type of greeting cards and create pie or bar chart using an online tool. They illustrate the sales statistics for the greeting cards before making the charts.
CK-12 Foundation
Circles Centered at the Origin: The Map of the Beta Solar System
Calculate galactic orbits in a far-out resource. Pupils drag a point on a circle to graph the orbit of a fictional planet. Using the equation, they find points through which the orbit passes. To finish the simulation, users determine the...
Willow Tree
Bar Graphs
Circles, lines, dots, boxes: graphs come in all shapes in sizes. Scholars learn how to make a bar graph using univariate data. They also analyze data using those bar graphs.
Virginia Department of Education
Graphs
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Equations of Circles: The Sea of Happiness
Map this! Help your young mathematicians draw a circular island on a map. Given specifics of the location and size of an island on a map, pupils transform a circle to meet the given requirements. They then determine the location of the...
Curated OER
Data Analysis and Probability
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...
EngageNY
Graphing the Sine and Cosine Functions
Doing is more effective than watching. Learners use spaghetti to discover the relationship between the unit circle and the graph of the sine and cosine functions. As they measure lengths on the unit circle and transfer them to a...
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Circle Graph Activity
In this circle graph worksheet, students ask 16 people what their favorite vegetable are, then create a circle graph to represent the information.
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What's in a Number? Analyzing Smoking Statistics
Sixth and seventh graders analyze smoking statistics. In this health instructional activity, learners look at the percentage of people who smoke from each race group. They create a bar graph and circle graph that displays this...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Sorting Equations of Circles 1
Round and round we go. Learners first complete a task on writing equations of circles. They then take part in a collaborative activity categorizing a set of equations for circles based on the radius and center.
101 Questions
Circle-Square
How do the area and perimeters of circles and squares compare? A clever video illustrates the change in the area of a circle and square while their total perimeter stays the same. The task is for learners to predict the point where the...
Curated OER
Graphing in the Information Age
Middle schoolers create a variety of graphs based on population data. In this statistics lesson plan, students use data that can be gathered on-line to make a bar chart, line graph, and circle graph.
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Graph it!
Sixth graders view a Stacked Graph, and discuss what it shows. Students discuss the basics of graphing: labels, intervals, legends x and y axis... Students create individual stacked graphs from provided information. Students view a...
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Dealing with Data
Seventh graders collect and analyze data. In the seventh grade data analysis lesson, 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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Fruit Loop Graphing
Fifth graders interpret data and create graphs. Given Fruit Loops, they sort and classify according to color. Using spreadsheet technology, 5th graders record their data and create bar and circle graphs. Students analyze data and...
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Graph Frenzy!!
Students brainstorm for a survey question to ask classmates. They survey their classmates. They enter the results into a spreadsheet and create the best graph for the information. They share their graphs with the class.
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Circles and Parabolas
In this circles and parabolas activity, students follow directions to draw parabolas. They fold paper to represent a parabola. Students also use straight lines to create a circle. This one page activity contains three multi-step...
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Christmas Presents
Seventh graders create a graph of their Christmas gifts. They develop categories, compute fractional and decimal parts for each category, identify the number of degrees to represent each fractional part, and create a circle graph to...
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Angles and Arcs
For this angles and arcs worksheet, 10th graders solve 18 various types of problems related to determine various angles and arcs of a circle. First, they find the measure of each angle and arc of the first circle shown. Then, students...
Virginia Department of Education
Numbers in a Name
What's in a name? Pupils create a data set from the number of letters in the names of classmates. Each group then takes the data and creates a visual representation, such as a histogram, circle graph, stem-and-leaf plot, etc.
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Funerals and Burial Rites
Ninth graders research burial practices that originated in West Africa and then migrated to the South Carolina and Ohio. They compare and contrast burial practices in both places. As students collect information and data, they organize...
Alabama Learning Exchange
How Old is Your Money?
Elementary learners explore coin mint dates. First, they listen to the book Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. They then sort a collection of coins according to their mint date and put them in order from oldest...