Let's Get Graphing Activity
Scaled bar and line graphs anchor this data activity. Students graph library book data and a week of prize giveaways, then answer one- and two-step how-many-more and how-many-fewer questions.

- Grades
- Preschool–Pre-K, Grades 1–3, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Math, Numbers, Geometry
- Topic
- Statistics
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This Let's Get Graphing Activity is a great way for students to practice solving one- and two-step problems using information from scaled bar graphs. This activity is perfect for small groups or math centers.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Draw a scaled bar graph and a line graph from a data set
- Solve one- and two-step comparison problems using graphed data
- Match graphing terms to their definitions
Teaching tips
- Running the vocabulary cards before the worksheets gives students the graph terms the later questions rely on.
Skills covered
- Graph construction — plotting library book removals as a bar graph and daily giveaways as a line graph
- Reading scaled data — comparing values from the plotted graph to answer how-many-more and how-many-fewer questions
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Core concepts
- Scaled bar graph
- Line graph
- Data comparison
- Graph vocabulary
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