Math Moment: Create a Graph

Math Moment

Create a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

Remind your kids why making graphs is a fun way to understand real-world information better. Try this page from NCES Kids - a quick and simple little tool for making, saving, and printing your own graphs. You can enter your data, choose from among many formatting options, create your labels, and see your graph. If your child is new to graphing, I recommend choosing a personally interesting data set to graph - for example, number of desserts your child had each day for the past five days.

For older graphers comfortable with spreadsheets, here's a page with data sets to download and graph:

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/data.set6.html

and

http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/other.resources.html has other data sources to peruse.

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