Lesson 5

Represent Data in Scaled Bar Graphs

Lesson Purpose

The purpose of this lesson is for students to create a scaled bar graph.

Lesson Narrative

In a previous lesson, students collected categorical class data and learned how to create a scaled picture graph. Students now make connections between scaled picture graphs and scaled bar graphs, and expand the idea of a scale that is more than one to bar graphs. In this lesson students choose a scale of 2 or 5 for their bar graph.

Math Community

Tell students that, at the end of the lesson, they will be asked to identify specific examples of norms they experienced as they did math.

  • Engagement
  • MLR7

Learning Goals

Teacher Facing

  • Represent data using scaled bar graphs.

Student Facing

  • Let’s make a scaled bar graph.

Required Materials

Materials to Gather

Required Preparation

Activity 2:

  • Each student needs the picture graph they creaed in the previous lesson.

CCSS Standards

Addressing

Building Towards

Lesson Timeline

Warm-up 10 min
Activity 1 10 min
Activity 2 25 min
Lesson Synthesis 10 min
Cool-down 5 min

Teacher Reflection Questions

Based on students’ prior work with scaled picture graphs, what strategy did you anticipate today? What strategy did you not anticipate?

Suggested Centers

  • Sort and Display (1–3), Stage 3: Scaled Graphs (Addressing)
  • Five in a Row: Addition and Subtraction (1–2), Stage 6: Add within 100 with Composing (Supporting)

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