Thinkport: Displaying Data With Line Plots

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4, 5

Overview

Use a line plot to explore the distribution and variation of football players’ heights in this interactive from MPT. In the accompanying classroom activity, students use the interactive and then gather numeric data from classmates on topics such as height and number of pets. Each pair uses one of these data sets to create and analyze a line plot. Students conclude by considering ways that line plots facilitate summarizing and analyzing data sets. 

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

MA19.4.20

Interpret data in graphs (picture, bar, and line plots) to solve problems using numbers and operations.

UP:MA19.4.20

Vocabulary

  • Interpret
  • Data
  • Picture graph
  • Bar graph
  • Line plot
  • Data set
  • Scale
  • Frequency
  • Key
  • Partition

Knowledge

Students know:
  • how toMeasure objects to the nearest half, quarter, and eighth of an inch.
  • Partition a number line to show halves, fourths, and eighths.
  • Interpret data displayed in graphs to solve problems related to the data set.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Interpret data in graphs (picture, bar, and line plots) to solve problems using numbers and operations.
  • Create a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8).
  • Interpret data in line plots to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions.

Note: Students need to mark the line plot in eighths to use equivalence with common denominators of eighths before adding or subtracting with data set.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • data can be collected, organized and analyzed in data displays to generate and answer questions related to the context of the data.
Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 5

MA19.5.16

Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit ($\frac{1}{2}$, $\frac{1}{4}$, $\frac{1}{8}$).

UP:MA19.5.16

Vocabulary

  • Line plot
  • Data
  • Data set
  • Frequency
  • Fraction
  • Operations
  • Number line
  • Fraction intervals

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies to equipartition a length model.
  • Measurement in units of halves, fourths, and eighths using a tool for standard units of measure.
  • Strategies to solve problems using the four operations with fractions.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Create a line plot with appropriate intervals.
  • Represent data on a line plot.
  • Apply strategies for solving problems involving all four operations with the fractional data.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • mathematical data can be collected, analyzed, and organized in a data display to solve problems involving the data.

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

CUSTOM
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