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How to Make a Frequency Table (Qualitative Data) | Math with Mr. J

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How to Make a Frequency Table (Qualitative Data) | Math with Mr. J
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Summary

How to read and make graphs -- bar graphs, pictographs, line plots, and more -- to display and interpret data. Mr. J shows how to pull answers from a graph.

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Teaching resources

Discussion questions

Graphs turn a set of data into a picture you can read at a glance.

  1. What does each type of graph show best?
  2. How do you read a value off a bar graph or pictograph?
  3. What does the key or scale tell you?

Quick work-a-long

Words to know: bar graph, pictograph, line plot, data, scale

  • Read two values off a bar graph and compare them.
  • Make a small bar graph from a set of class data.