Content Standard

The student collects, organizes, represents, evaluates, and interprets data; makes predictions based on data, applies basic understandings of chance and probability and applies this knowledge to solve real life and career related problems.

Performance Standard

· displays data in charts, tables and graphs
· predicts results, analyzes data, and finds out why some results are more or less likely

Materials

· Chart Paper
· Paper
· Rulers
· Colored Candy ( Skittles or any other colored candy)
· Pencils
· Crayons
· Inch graph paper (if possible)

Objective

The student will identify, create and color a bar graph.

I. Warm Up Activity:

The class will define and discuss what is a bar graph.. Definition a bar graph is a graph that . The students will make graph of themselves.. The teacher will give instructions for students to raise their hands when a question is asked that applies to them. The teacher will ask questions i.e. How many people have on blue? How many people have on black? How many people have on red? When students raise their hands they will be directed to stand in line behind everyone else that the answer applies to. After asking a series of questions the students will have made about at least five or six lines. The students will then observe the lines they have created. The teacher will then make a chart on chart paper showing the students how their chart looks. See Example 1.

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