Math Games

Year 6 - Statistics & Probability

Standard 6.SP.1.2 - Interpret the data represented in a bar graph.

Included Skills:

Data representation and interpretation
• Interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables
- comparing different student-generated diagrams, tables and graphs, describing their similarities and differences and commenting on the usefulness of each representation for interpreting the data
- understanding that data can be represented in different ways, sometimes with one symbol representing more than one piece of data, and that it is important to read all information about a representation before making judgments
• Interpret secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere
- investigating data representations in the media and discussing what they illustrate and the messages the people who created them might want to convey
- identifying potentially misleading data representations in the media, such as graphs with broken axes or non-linear scales, graphics not drawn to scale, data not related to the population about which the claims are made, and pie charts in which the whole pie does not represent the entire population about which the claims are made