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. 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. Write down the information under Enrollment by Grade, recording how many students are in each grade. 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.
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What is the best graph to use? Try using different kinds of graphs. Close Window. 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. Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration.
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Other times, a graph or chart helps impress people by. 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. NCES Kids' Zone: Create a Graph Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually.
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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. Procedure Create a line, bar, area, pie, or scatter plot graph to display your data.
Part of the National Center for Education Statistics' Classroom feature, Create a Graph is a simple, visual program in which kids can create a custom bar, area, line or pie graph. Clicking on the graph type from the menu leads to a brief overview about that type of graph, what sorts of data it is useful for, and links to the data entry page. On the data entry page, kids can enter up to 15 data.
How 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).