Summary
A Cyberchase math segment that has students draw bar graphs and compare two of them, paying close attention to scaling and to labeling the axes. A practical wrap-up for a data unit.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
- Why do axes need labels?
- How did scaling change the way the bars looked?
- What makes a bar graph easy to read?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: axis, label, scale.
Try it: Draw a bar graph of pets in your class and label both axes.