Grade 5 Math MD.2

Which of the following questions is most likely to yield data that changes over time?

• What is your favorite color?

• How many hours do you spend on homework each week?

• What is your shoe size?

• How many siblings do you have?

What type of graph is best used to represent data that changes over time?

• Bar graph

• Pie chart

• Line graph

• Histogram

If you are collecting data on the temperature at noon each day for a month, what type of data are you collecting?

• Categorical data

• Numerical data

• Data that changes over time

• Static data

Which of the following is an example of a survey question that will yield categorical data?

• How many books did you read last month?

• What is your favorite type of music?

• How tall are you?

• What is the temperature today?

You are asked to record the number of steps you take each day for a week. What type of data are you collecting?

• Categorical data

• Numerical data

• Data that changes over time

• Static data

Which of the following is a numerical data question?

• What is your favorite animal?

• How many pets do you have?

• What is your favorite season?

• What is your favorite food?

If you want to show the growth of a plant over several weeks, which type of graph should you use?

• Bar graph

• Line graph

• Pie chart

• Scatter plot

Which of the following questions will yield data that does not change over time?

• How many hours do you sleep each night?

• What is your birth month?

• How much water do you drink daily?

• What is the weather like today?

What is the main purpose of using a line graph?

• To compare parts of a whole

• To show changes over time

• To display frequency of data

• To show relationships between variables

Which of the following is an example of data that changes over time?

• The number of students in a class

• The daily high temperature for a week

• The types of fruits in a basket

• The number of pages in a book