Measurement/ Vocabulary
What is length of line A in cm and in?
Answers may vary
What part of the graph do you look at to find the topic of the graph?
Title
What are the two directions that a bar can show data?
Vertical and horizontal
Draw a line plot with this data:
Length of pencils
4 inches ||||
5 inches |||
7 inches |
8 inches ||
students should start at 0 and stop at 8 (be sure to add number in between)
Shirley read 10 pages every day for a week. How many pages did she read altogether? (Draw a table and then find the total.)
70 pages
What do you call the information you collect or display?
Data
What do you call a picture that is used to stand for something else?
A symbol
If you are using a survey to make a bar graph, what do the bars show?
How many people chose that answer.
On a Line Graph, what do the numbers stand for on the bottom?
On the bottom- the data taken
Bob, Bill, and Barry went to the park. They each took 2 Frisbees with them. How many Frisbees did they have in all? (Draw a table and then find the total.)
6 Frisbees
This kind of graph uses bars to display the data?
Bar Graph
What labels would you need to add to a graph about class favorite lunch choices?
Lunch Choices Number of Votes
A picture graph uses a picture of a shoe to represent 2 shoes. 5 shoes are on one line of this picture graph. How many shoes does that mean?
10 shoes
Draw a line plot for these data:
Length of used crayons
2 inches ||||
3 inches |||
5 inches |
6 inches ||
7 inches ||||
students should start at 0 and stop at 7 (be sure to add number in between)
Each hen in Farmer Brown's barn lays 3 eggs each day. There are 4 hens in the barn. How many eggs do they lay in 2 days?
24 eggs
What is the measurement of line B in cm and in?
Answers will vary
What do you call the box at the bottom of a picture graph that tells you what the symbols mean?
The key
How is a bar graph different from a picture graph?
A bar graph has colored boxes instead of pictures. A bar graph has a scale and a picture graph has a key.
Why is a line graph used, instead of a bar graph?
Any of these answer are acceptable: Line graphs can show change over time. Line graphs can show more than one data point. Line graphs can show two sets of numbers.
There are 7 tables in the classroom. Each table has space for 3 students. How many students are in the classroom? (Draw a table and find the final answer.)
21 students
This kind of graph is used to show how often a certain number appears in a set of data.
Line Plot
What do you call the set of numbers on the side of a bar graph?
The number line
What symbol could be used on a picture graph about different kinds of food?
Possible answers: Plate, fork, different foods, etc.
Using the information from this Line Graph, on which pencil was the shortest? Longest?
Length of pencils
4 inches ||||
5 inches |||
7 inches |
8 inches ||
shorter 7 inches
longest 4 inches
Each student at the table has 5 notebooks. There are 4 students at each table. How many notebooks are in each table basket? (Draw a table and find the final answer.)
20 notebooks