Connected Mathematics Grade Six
Data About Us
Investigation Two: Types of Data
Lessons (2)
Introduction and fine points of using bar graphs and histograms.
Students learn about the difference between univariate and bivariate data and understand how to choose the best graph to display the data.
Activities (3)
Sort colored shapes into a bar graph. Practice sorting by shape or by color. Appropriate for elementary grades. Bar Graph Sorter is one of the Interactivate assessment explorers.
View histograms for built-in or user-specified data. Experiment with how the size of the class intervals influences the appearance of the histogram. Parameters: Data sets, class sizes.
Functions like a real stopwatch, recording times that you choose. This stopwatch is accurate to the nearest tenth of a second. Parameters: Count up from 0 or count down from a set time.