To understand the necessary elements of a bar graph and apply them in practice.
To make summary statements (generalisations) about teacher supplied bar graphs
To the left are our keywords for this lesson. They make up the acronym FACKTS. We use this acronym to remember the key features of a graph.
What do each of them mean? Discuss in groups or as a class.
Once the graph is completed and all conventions below have been added, you can complete the following sentence(s). These are known as generalisations or summary statements.
This bar graph shows that the most frequent answer to our survey question was ___.
This bar graph shows that the least frequent answer to our survey question was___ .
As a class:
What does 'frequent' mean?
When asked to identify a trend what does this mean?
Why is it useful to make these statements?
Different types of bar graphs - in this video from Twinkl they are called Bar Charts. What is a Bar Chart?
In the following bar graph, add your own title and a generalisation to this bar graph.
Do this by copying the graph onto a doc.
For students who are struggling with an idea or missed time to gather data. Or as a general reinforcement of the concepts