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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Scientific and engineering practices. The student asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models.
Bar Type Graph

Bar type graph titled Vehicles Counted in a Parking Lot. Cars five. Trucks three.

The following are true of a bar-type graph:

  • Bars of the same width are divided into countable sections to represent the frequency of data values in a data set.
  • Each section represents one data point.
  • Data may be numerical or categorical.
  • A bar-type graph allows comparisons between and among quantities to be made.

 

Pictograph
Pet Number of students
Dog
A dog icon
A dog icon
A dog icon
A dog icon
A dog icon
Cat
A cat icon
A cat icon
A cat icon
A cat icon
A cat icon
A cat icon
Fish
A fish icon
A fish icon

The following are true of a picture graph:

  • It uses pictures to represent the frequency of data values in a set
  • It allows comparisons to be made between and among quantities.
  • This is also called a pictograph.

Dog, cat, and aquarium icons created by Flat Icons on flaticon.com 

factual information (such as observations, measurements, or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation; often includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful

Research

Spina, Carli. “Why Kids Need Data Literacy, and How You Can Teach It.” School Library Journal  9, (June 2017). https://www.slj.com/story/why-kids-need-data-literacy-and-how-you-can-teach-it.

Summary: This article explains the importance of students' ability to interpret data displayed in various formats. Data has, in recent years, become more prevalent in everyday life. Visual representation and organizing data is a helpful skills for students as they progress through upper-level math and science classes. The article also provides teachers with resources to teach this skill.