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Let’s Make a Graph Activity

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1 Let’s Make a Bar Graph Activity
2 Let’s Make a Box-and-Whisker Plot Activity
3 Let’s Make a Circle Graph Activity
4 Let’s Make a Stem-and-Leaf Graph Activity
5 Free Download of Let’s Make a Graph Activity
6 More Activities for Teaching Statistics

I created this let’s make a graph activity to give my Algebra 1 students practice making various types of data displays. We needed to practice making bar graphs, box-and-whisker-plots, circle graphs, and stem-and-leaf graphs.

We completed this activity after going over our Types of Data Displays Foldable.

Types of Data Displays Foldable

I made these half-sheet forms for students to complete and then put in a pocket in their notebooks.

Students had to come up with four different questions for the class to ask that we could turn into the four different types of graphs/data displays.

This activity ended up taking a class period and a half (50 minute periods) to complete.

My students struggled with coming up with appropriate questions that would yield good data.  So, I had to keep telling them to come up with new ideas.  

For the stem-and-leaf graph, all three of my Algebra 1 classes independently decided to do “What is your favorite number?”  I found this to be very interesting!

Let’s Make a Bar Graph Activity

Let's Make a bar Graph Activity

Let’s Make a Box-and-Whisker Plot Activity

Let's Make a box-and-whisker plot Activity

Let’s Make a Circle Graph Activity

Let's Make a circle Graph Activity

Let’s Make a Stem-and-Leaf Graph Activity

Let's Make a stem-and-leaf Graph Activity

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More Activities for Teaching Statistics

Sarah Carter teaches high school math in her hometown of Coweta, Oklahoma. She currently teaches AP Precalculus, AP Calculus AB, and Statistics. She is passionate about sharing creative and hands-on teaching ideas with math teachers around the world through her blog, Math = Love.

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  2. I wish Stats was placed at the end of the year for us. They have it as our 5th unit and make us take benchmark assessments so I can't change the order too much. They had it between linear functions and systems. I vetoed that this year because the students just get comfortable with linear functions and then take a month off to do stats before returning to systems. So I moved it to after systems. Still a terrible but better than before.

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