Understanding Data and Graphs

What is data?

• A type of graph

• Information

• A mathematical operation

• A picture

What do we use graphs for?

• To create art

• To display information

• To make data look pretty

• To confuse people

Why do we use graphs in math?

• To fill up space in textbooks

• To visualize data

• To avoid calculations

• To make it more complicated

What did we turn the sales data into first?

• A pie chart

• A frequency table

• A picture graph

• A bar graph

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What is the purpose of a frequency table?

• To make data look less important

• To display data in a list

• To draw pictures

• To confuse readers

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What picture did we use to represent cookies in the picture graph?

• Squares

• Cookies

• Circles

• Stars

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Why did we adjust the value of each cookie picture in the graph?

• To save space

• Because we ran out of cookies

• To make it less accurate

• To make it harder

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How did we make the picture graph more manageable?

• By using fewer cookies

• By making each cookie represent more than one

• By using a different graph

• By drawing smaller cookies

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What does each line in the bar graph represent?

• 100 cookies

• 50 cookies

• 25 cookies

• 10 cookies

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What was the first step in creating a bar graph?

• Drawing the bars

• Eating cookies

• Adding a title and setting up the graph area

• Choosing the colors

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