This interactive Shockwave applet helps students learn about using frequency tables to organize data and using several visual representations to interpret data. At each of three levels the user collects and records simulated data about a class of students, and then chooses a graph that represents the given data. Representations include circle graphs, line graphs, histograms, and simple scatter plots. The Key Ideas page offers background information on graphs and data analysis. A set of supplementary student activity printouts (Words, Words, Words) is available for further practice.

Summary

Subject keyword(s)	Addition, Analyze and persevere, Arithmetic, Bar graph, Comparison of numbers, Concept formation, Connections, Counting, Data analysis, Data collection, Data distribution, Data presentation, Education, Frequency graph, Histogram, Make use of structure, Mathematics, Middle school, Number and operations, Operations, pie chart, Practice Standards, Process skills, Reason quantitatively, Representation, Sampling and surveys, Scatter plot, Statistics, statistics, Student populations, Table, Visual representation
Grade level	Elementary School, Middle School, Informal Education, Vocational/Professional Development Education
Intended audience	Educator, Learner
Resource type	Audio/Visual, Instructional Material
Resource format	application, audio, text, text/html
Rights	British Broadcasting Corporation 2002-2007 (c) BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/ Copyright 2010 BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/copyright/

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