Evaluate how well various representations show the collected data. (0406.5.2)

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1. Choosing an Appropriate Graph - This elementary school math tutorial from NutshellMath offers introductory homework help in choosing an appropriate graph to represent data.
2. Choosing an Appropriate Graph: Developing the Concept - [designed for grade 5] After studying several types of graphs, students must now decide on which type or types might be used for different sets of data.
3. Create-a-Graph - lessons and activities on a variety of graphs
4. Data Picking - Students collect data, enter tally marks or numbers and then select which graph is appropriate.
5. Graphing Resources: Graph Types - a flow chart to help students select the chart best suited to their data
6. Interpreting Data with a Random Ball-Picking Machine - experiment with a random generator at a BBC site to collect data to make decisions about probability.
   1. After you finish working through the ball-picking activity, take a ten-question probability quiz
7. Interpreting Data - multiple-choice quiz from Glencoe math [5 questions]
8. Interpreting Column Graphs - students practice by answering ten questions about the graph
9. Overview of a Bar Graph by Nicole Carroll followed by a practice quiz
10. Overview of a Line Graph by Nicole Carroll
11. Overview of a Circle Graph by Nicole Carroll followed by a practice quiz
12. Play Ball - collect data to put on a picture graph

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