Parts of a Graph
What labels would you need to add to a graph about your class's favourite lunch choices?
Lunch Choices and Number of Votes
You collect data by asking the same question over and over using a _____.
Survey
This type of graph uses bars to display data.
Bar graph
What are the two directions that a bar can show data?
Horizontal (left to right) or Vertical (up and down)
On a pictograph, there is a paw print used as a symbol. What could the paw print represent?
Many answers: favourite type of animal, pets at home etc.
What labels would you need to add to a graph about the shoes students are wearing at school?
Types of shoes and students at school
What do you call the information you collect or display?
Data
This type of graph uses pictures or symbols to display data.
Pictograph
How might I choose to organize a bucket of lego?
There can be many answers: colour, size, number of dots, type of lego set it came from etc.
A farmer uses a bar graph to show which hen has laid the most eggs in a week. Is this a good choice of graph?
Yes, shows a difference in the number of eggs. We can easily which hen has laid the most/least.
What do you call the box at the bottom of a pictograph that tells you what the symbols mean?
The key or legend
The part of the graph that tells us what the question being asked is.
Heading/Title
How is a bar graph different from a pictograph?
A bar graph has coloured boxes instead of pictures. A bar graph has a scale and a picture graph has a key.
What symbol could be used on a picture graph about different kinds of food?
Possible answers: Plate, fork, different foods, etc.
A pictograph 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
What labels would you need to add to a graph about the weather in the month of January?
Temperature and days in January
The parts of the graph that tells us who was asked the survey and how many.
Labels
What type of graph would you use to show the difference in temperature each day?
Bar graph
We use this diagram when organizing data that has 1 attribute and 1 shared attribute. It looks like two, big, overlapping circles.
Venn Diagram
On a bar graph, there are 3 categories: Blue, Red and Yellow. The label on the number side says "Number of students". What do you think this bar graph is telling us?
There can be multiple answers:
Students favourite colour, type of paint they want to use, colour of shirt, etc.
What labels would you need to add to a graph about parent's favourite chores that their children do?
Types of chores and number of votes.
What do we use to track and count data that we collect in a survey?
Tally marks
What type of graph could you use to represent the favourite animal of the grade 1 and 2 class?
Bar graph or Pictograph
We use this diagram to organize data that has more than 1 attribute and looks like a bunch of boxes.
Carroll Diagram
Shirley read 10 pages every day for a week. What type of graph should she use to display her data and why?
All are acceptable
Bar, pictrograph or line plot.