Lesson 1 Make Sense of Data

    • Let’s read and ask questions about data.

Warm-up Notice and Wonder: Graphs

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

Graph. Each stick figure represents 1 student. column 1, 4 figures. column 2, 3. column 3, 1. column 4, 2. column 5, 7. column 6, 6.

Activity 1 Picture Time

What could the categories be for this picture graph?

Be prepared to explain your reasoning.

Picture Graph titled How we get home. Each stick figure represents 1 student. column 1, 4 figures. column 2, 3. column 3, 1. column 4, 2. column 5, 7. column 6, 6. 

Activity 2 Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs

A group of students were asked, “How do you get home?” Their responses are shown in a picture graph and a bar graph.

Picture Graph titled How we get home. Each stick figure represents 1 student. Walk, 4 figures. bike, 3. skateboard, 1. car, 2. bus, 7. train, 6. 
Bar graph. How We Get Home. Horizontal axis labeled, ways to get home. Vertical axis from 0 to 8 by ones. Height of bar: walk, 4, bike, 3, skateboard, 1, car, 2, bus, 7, train, 6.

  1. How are the graphs the same? How are they different?

  2. What can we learn about how students get home based on the graphs?

  3. Write two questions you could ask about how students get home based on the graphs.

Practice Problem

Problem 1

Flowers.

The graph shows some information about flowers in the garden.

Bar graph. Flowers in the Garden. Vertical axis labeled number of flowers from 0 to 10 by ones. Horizontal axis labeled roses, tulips, sunflowers, daffodils. Height of bar: roses, 7. tulips, 5. sunflowers, 9. daffodils, 2.

  1. Write one fact you know based on the data shown in the graph.

  2. Write 2 questions you could answer about the data in the bar graph.