Graphing
Making a Bar Graph
By Rosi Barron
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•Fifth Grade Graphing: Creating Graphs • Tips: -Teachers, please read through the whole presentation prior to the activity. -Each activity is meant to be used in addition to your classroom teaching. -Each activity includes a journal component.
•Objective: TSW utilize charted data to create specific graphs.
Graph Requirements
• Data to be graphed,
• Title area & legend area, • Labels for the X axis & Y axis, and
• An appropriate graph for the data.
Each time you see the journal paper you will need to write in your Math Journal.
Graph #2: Bar Graph - a graph that uses bars of different heights or lengths to show & compare information.
C h o c o V l a a t e n i l l a Sy o uoC t b C gc h re a w r r o ho i k i oh e C D l a t p e 2 0 1 3 8 3 5 1 6
Each student in the fifth grade was asked to vote for their favorite ice cream flavor. Use the data in the table to make a Bar Graph.
Click to see the Bar Graph ----->
Does your graph look like this one? If not, draw this one.
Favorite Ice CreamFlavors
40
30
Number of Students
20
10
0
C hocolate
Vanilla
Straw berry Ice C ream Flav ors Flav ors
C ookie D ough
C hocolate C hip
Wow!