Graph Webquest

I asked students to look through their graphing homework and then to go on the web and find 5 examples of line graphs, bar charts, and pie charts.

 

These examples come from my 2019-2020 class. We then defined quantitative and qualitative variable

 

Quantitative involves numbers that can be measured with some sort of scale. The size of the numbers is important, ie, 6 is greater than 5.

 

Qualitative just involves categories. The Air Force is not more than the State Department, they're just different.

 

We then circled all of our qualitative variables. We can see that:

 

Line Charts are good for graphing two quantitative variables

 

Bar Graphs are good for graphing one quantitative and one qualitative variable

 

Pie Charts only show one variable, but show how much of each value there is in a total amount.

 

Done