Data Analysis

Overview

Your student will be learning:

• how to represent data with bar graphs, frequency tables, dot plots, scatter-plots or stem-and-leaf plots. (See videos below.)
• how to solve one- and two-step problems using data from a frequency table, dot plot, bar graph, stem-and-leaf plot, or scatterplots.

Resources

• Videos
  • Frequency Tables & Dot Plots. This Khan Academy video explains how to create frequency tables and dot plots.
  • Stem and Leaf Plots. The first minute of this Shmoop video explains how to create a stem and leaf plot. Median and mean are mentioned during the second half of the video but they are not taught in 5th grade.
  • Stem-and-Leaf Plots. This Khan Academy video explains how to read a stem and leaf plot.
  • Reading Stem and Leaf Plots. This Khan Academy video explains how to interpret a stem and leaf plot.
• Free Apps

• Books
  • Sir Cumference and the Off the Charts Dessert by Cindy Neuschwander. This story presents a problem that can be solved by organizing data in a graph.