Nceskids Graphing

Other times, a graph or chart helps impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually. Here you will find four different graphs and charts for you to consider. NCES Kids' Zone: Create a Graph Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually.

For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world. NCES constantly uses graphs and charts in our publications and on the web. Create a Graph user manualHow Do I Use the New Create a Graph? How to Choose Which Type of Graph to Use? Definitions Building Bar Graphs Learning Line Graphs Perfecting Pie Charts Analyzing Area Graphs Examining X-Y (Scatter) Plots What are Independent and Dependant Variables? Fun Graphing Exercise! Printable PDF (735 k).

Create a Graph is a service of the National Center for Education Statistics. The site contains easy to understand explanations of four different charts and graphs and a data input section for each graph. Graphs include area graph, bar graph, line graph and pie chart.

The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education. Then go to the Create-A-Graph and use the information you recorded to make your own graph showing how many students are in each grade at your school. What is the best graph to use?

This Nces: Create a Graph: Kids Zone Interactive is suitable for 3rd - 8th Grade. Make your own pie, bar, line, area or XY graph with this interactive tool. Look for examples of graphs already created from data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Create a Graph Summary The tool allows you to create a line, bar, area, pie, or scatter plot graph to display your data. In this graph, the source tells us that we found our information from the NCES Common Core of Data. X-Axis Bar graphs have an x-axis and a y-axis.

In most bar graphs, like the one above, the x-axis runs horizontally (flat). Sometimes bar graphs are made so that the bars are sidewise like in the graph below.