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. 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. Learn how to create different types of graphs using data from your school's enrollment by race/ethnicity and grade. Explore the Create.
In today's lesson, students use the 'create a graph' website to present their experimental results. Students must decide which type of graph is most appropriate for displaying their data, input their data, and create a scientifically accurate graph. They then print their graph to be used in their experimental reports.
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. Other times, a graph or chart helps impress people by. 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.
Procedure Go to the "Create a Graph" web app on the NCES website. On the right side of the screen, select a graph type. Once you select the graph type, use the vertical tabs on the right edge of the menu to customize your graph.
The "design" tab allows you to customize the graph's direction, shape, and style. Note that these choices vary depending on the graph type. On the "data.
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.
Then the x-axis has numbers representing different time periods or names of things being compared. In these graphs, the x. 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.