TYPES OF GRAPHS
READING GRAPHS
VOCABULARY
CREATING GRAPHS
RANDOM
100
This is the type of graph whose total always represents 100%.
What is a circle/pie graph?
100
In a circle graph, this size sector would represent 25% of the total.
What is 1/4?
100
Another word for average.
What is the mean?
100
Create a line plot for these values: 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7
Check graphs - should have a number line and symbols to show frequency of each number.
100
Write as a decimal: 1/4
What is .25?
200
This graph shows the frequency of values along a number line.
What is a line plot?
200
This is one difference between a histogram and a bar graph.
What is bar graphs have disconnected bars and histograms have connected bars OR histograms group data into ranges and bar graphs keep data separated?
200
The difference between the maximum and the minimum.
What is the range?
200
Create a stem-and-leaf plot for these values: 21, 23, 34, 35, 36, 42, 54, 55, 57
Check plots.
200
Reduce to simplest terms: 45/63
What is 5/7?
300
This graph's main parts are its stem and leaf.
What is a stem-and-leaf plot?
300
This is about how many wins the Miami Heat had in 2009, according to our double bar graph in the warm-up.
What is 47? (within 5 points OK)
300
This is the number that shows up most often in one set of data.
What is the mode?
300
Create a circle graph that is broken into sectors of 15%, 25%, 30%, and 30%
Check circle graphs on SmartPals.
300
Any number that can be written as a fraction.
What is a rational number?
400
This graph shows frequency for individual categories by disconnected columns.
What is a bar graph?
400
These are the words that usually appear at the top or above a graph. They tell us what kind of information the graph displays.
What is the title?
400
This is the middle number of a data set.
What is the median?
400
Create a bar graph that shows people's favorite color: 8 like green 4 like blue 3 like red
Check bar graphs - disconnected bars!
400
These are the edges of the box on a box-and-whisker plot.
What are the upper and lower quartiles?
500
This graph displays the 5 number summary of a data set.
What is a box-and-whisker plot?
500
This is where I would look for the maximum and minimum values on a box-and-whisker plot.
What are the whiskers?
500
This is another term for counting how many times a value appears in a data set.
What is frequency?
500
These are all five parts of the 5 number summary needed to draw a box-and-whisker plot.
What are the minimum, maximum, median, upper quartile, and lower quartile?
500
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What is -14?
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