Chapter 5 - Data Management

We will cover the following concepts:

1. Reading & Interpreting Data

(from Tables, Pictographs, Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, & Line Graphs)

2. Review of Various Types of Graphs and Their Uses

3. Analyzing Data Using Mean and Mode (review) as well as Median (new)

4. Creating Bar Graphs, Circle Graphs, & Line Graphs

5. Plotting points on a Coordinate Grid

6. Creating Scatter Plots & Stem-and-Leaf Plots

7. Conducting Surveys, Creating unbiased Survey Questions and Sampling a Population

Class Handouts

1. In-Class Practice Page Plotting Coordinate Pairs

2. Various Types of Graphs & Their Uses

3. Glossary of Important Terms for this Unit

4. Scatter Plots Reference Package

5. Creating a Stem-and-Leaf Plot In-Class Handout

6. Review of Concepts that will be on the Unit Test

Homework Sheets

1. PH Book P. 74-5 - "Graphing on a Coordinate Grid".

2. PH Book P. 68-69 - "Interpreting Data".

3. Temperature Data for Seattle Washington.

4. Grade 6 Students' Favourite Subjects Survey Data.

5. Data Management & Social Studies Cross-Curricular Project.

6. PH Book P. 70-71 - Finding the Median.

7. Mean, Median, Mode Package

8. Coordinate Plane Graphing Package

9. PH Book P. 76-77 - Scatter Plots.

10. Analyzing Scatter Plots Worksheet

11. Stem-and-Leaf Plot Package

12. PH Book P. 79 - Surveys (only do Q#1)

Useful Links

1. Kids' Zone - Create a Graph: (Kids' Zone "Create a Graph" allows you to try your hand at creating various types of graphs with data you have collected.)

2. Graphing Tutorial on Types of Graphs: (Kids' Zone provides a brief tutorial on different types of graphs and when to use them.)

3. Math-Aids.Com Create Your Own Worksheet: (Create your own Mean, Mode, Median, and Range definitions and problems worksheets in Math-Aids.Com.)

4. Purplemath - Stem & Leaf Plots