Lesson 4

Searching the Forest

Est. Class Sessions: 4

Daily Practice and Problems

Teacher Notes
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TIMS Bit

  1. Centimeter Grid Paper is located in the Teacher Guide, Lesson 1.

  2. Type of food
  3. Categorical
  4. Number of students
  5. Numerical. In a typical bar graph, the vertical axis generally shows the numerical variable.
  6. Sample questions: What was the most commonly chosen food? How many more people chose hamburgers than pizza?

P. What's for Lunch

Mr. Moreno's class went on a field trip to the museum. They ate lunch in the museum cafeteria. Shannon collected the following data about what her classmates ate for lunch. You will need a piece of graph paper.

  1. Make a bar graph of Shannon's data on Centimeter Grid Paper.
  2. What variable did you graph on the horizontal axis? ______________
  3. Is that variable categorical or numerical? ______________
  4. What variable did you graph on the vertical axis? ______________
  5. Is that variable categorical or numerical? ______________
  6. What are some questions you could answer using the graph?