Data Collection through Class Challenges

Essential Questions:  How can we create line graphs and bar models from data that we've collected?

Team Gibbas has been learning about bar graphs and line graphs as part of Chapter 4 in Math in Focus.  To give students some fun, hands-on, and authentic opportunities to create a bar graph and line graph students participated in two classroom challenges.

To generate data for a line graph, which displays data that changes over time, students were challenged to see how long they could stay in a wall squat.

To generate data for a bar graph, students participated in a dice challenge to see how many dice each student could balance on a popsicle stick held stable in the student's mouth.

Massachusetts Math Standard 3.MD  Draw a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories.