Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Bar Graphs

There are many different ways to share data with other people. Our favorite way is by graphing it! There are different types of graphs like a picture graph or line plot, but our favorite is the bar graph.

Here are some extremely creative and informative bar graphs we created our selves. 


 Every bar graph must have the following three things: 
1. Title (three labels)
2. Categories
3. Scale

In the bar graph below the title is Favorite Video Games. This tells us that the graph will give us information about the classes favorite video games.  

by Kaden and Tyler


We can use bar graphs to compare data. In this bar graph we can see that 2 more students voted for puppies than for
bunnies.

by Kate and Miss P


We can also use bar graphs to find how many students voted in all by adding all of the data together. How many students voted for their favorite video game in this graph?

By Noah and Alexa






Here are two more bar graphs we created. What information can you learn?  
By Hunter and Ella




By Leo Carillo




Use the sentence frames we made in class to ask the class a question about one of the graphs. 
1. Name the graph and the creators of the graph.
2. Fill out the spaces in our sentence frame with categories and numbers from the graph. Be sure it makes sense! So check your numbers carefully!
3. Ask the class to solve your question. 
4. Answer someone's question. Be sure no one else has already answered it. 
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8 comments:

  1. Mrs. BroussardOctober 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM

    Dear Room 9,
    I love candy of all kind, so I was thrilled to see a that a group of you created a graph about sweets. Looking at Leo Carillo’s graph, I can tell that candy is very popular with Room 9. I am sure many of you are excited for Halloween and all the delectable sugary treats that will be passed out!
    Please use the graph called Favorite Sweets made by Leo Carillo to answer my question. My question is:

    How many more students voted for pie or ice cream than chocolate?

    What signal words help you solve this problem?
    What is your favorite type of graph?

    Sincerely,
    Mrs. B

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    1. AnonymousOctober 22, 2015 at 8:27 PM

      Dear Mrs. B,
      The answer to your 1’st question is 15 students, the answer to your next question is “more than.” My favorite kind of graph is a picture graph because I like to know what the pictures are and looking at what the key is.
      Please use Hunter and Ella’s graph to answer my question. Here it is: How many more votes did M&M or ice cream get than Kit Kat and candy corn combined?


      From,
      Angelisse

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  2. Matthew V.October 20, 2015 at 4:26 PM

    Dear Room 9,
    The graph I am going to write my post about is Favorite Video Games by Noah and Alexa. Here are some questions about the graph:
    1. How many students voted for Minecraft than Madden 16?
    2. How many more students vote for Minecraft or Madden 16 than Jelly Jump?
    3. True or false, 8.5 students voted for Jelly Jump.
    4. True or false, 12 more students chose Jelly Jump than Minecraft.
    Please use the graph about Favorite Video Games to answer my question!
    Sincerely,
    Matthew V.

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    1. Mrs. BroussardOctober 20, 2015 at 6:27 PM

      Dear Matthew,
      I am so impressed by the number of questions you have for Noah and Alexa's graph. I would like to ask you some questions about their graph.
      What would happen if 4 more students voted and all chose Minecraft as their favorite game? How would you have to change the graph?

      Good luck!

      The gregarious graph maker,

      Mrs. B

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    2. Matthew V.October 26, 2015 at 3:41 PM

      Dear Mrs. Broussard,

      If 4 more students voted and all chose Minecraft as their favorite game, there would be 24 students who voted for Minecraft. We would then also have to make the bar for Minecraft longer by 4 students.

      Sincerely,
      Matthew V.

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  3. ryanpittmanOctober 20, 2015 at 9:23 PM

    Dear Room 9,
    The graph I'm going to write my post about is Favorite Video Games by Tyler and Kaden. Please use this graph to answer the questions below.
    Here are my graph questions:
    1. How many more students voted for Minecraft than Jelly Jump?
    2. How many more students voted for Madden 16 or Jelly Jump than Blocy-radar?
    3. True or false, 18 of students voted for Madden 16?
    4. True or false, five more students chose Minecraft than Jelly Jump?

    Sincerely,
    The Graph Queen
    Miss P.



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  4. AlexaOctober 21, 2015 at 5:49 PM

    Dear Ryan,
    For your first question the answer is 12 more students.For number 2 the answer is 22.For number three it is true not false.For number 4 it is false not true.On the graph that Kate and Miss P did, how many more students voted for bunny and bird then kitten and hamster?

    Sincerely,
    Alexa

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  5. UnknownOctober 21, 2015 at 5:59 PM

    Dear Room 9,
    The graph that I chose was about Favorite Pets by Kate and Miss P.
    Here are some questions for you to answer:
    1. How many more students voted for Bird than for Hamster?
    2. How many more students voted for Bird or Puppy than Kitten?
    3. True or false, "2" of the students voted for Bunny?
    4. True or false, "5" more students chose Puppy than Kitten?
    Sincerely,
    Daniella, D

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