TOPIC: Relationships between graphs and numbers.

Grade Level Category: 4-6

Strategy: The strategy will be an interview with individual students to discover their understanding of the revelance between a graph and numbers.

Objective/Purpose:
The learner will be able to make a relationship between a graph and numbers. The relationship will be whether they they can put the given numbers into the pies of the graph. Students will hold an interview with the teacher to tell how they arrived at the answers.

Materials Required: "See What You Think 2" worksheet. Manipulative of pie graphs to get a concept of the actual sections of the graph.

Description of the Activity:
Teacher will give each student a set of pie graph manipulative to get the concept of a graph in the pie form. The students will discuss the sizes of each section of the pie. They will estimate the number that they feel would fit each section. The student will then be given a worksheet with pictures of pie graphs and percentages of numbers to place within each section. The students will then attempt to answer the questions. The teacher will interview each student based upon a series of questions about why they chose the answers they did.

Reproducible Page:
See attached page
Worksheet

Management Tips:
Students may not be familiar with the concept of graphs in the pie shape. The manipulative should help students grasp the concept. Students may not have concept of percentages. Give examples of situations where percentages could be used.

References of Sources:
Mental Math Resource Book for Middle and Upper Grades. Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.



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