Nces Kids Graph

Learn how to make graphs and charts with numbers from NCES publications or your own data. Explore four different types of graphs and charts and have fun with math and science. Learn how to create graphs and charts with NCES data and examples.

Explore five different types of graphs and charts and their attributes on this web page. Learn how to create different types of graphs using data from your school's enrollment by race/ethnicity and grade. Explore the Create.

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. A resource from the National Center for Education Statistics that lets you create bar graphs with your data. Suitable for 9th - 10th grade algebra students, it aligns with Common Core standards and has a low readability score.

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.

Students can use homework problems, things they have a special interest in, or use some of the numbers they find elsewhere to. 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. Learn how to create and interpret line graphs with this user manual from NCES Kids' Zone.

See examples of line graphs that show changes in money spent on public education from 1961 to 2002. Pie charts can be used to show percentages of a whole, and represent percentages at a set point in time. They do not show changes over time.

An example using real education data would be if you wanted to show the percentages of the race/ethnicity of public school students across the U.S. for a particular school year.