Reading histograms

The  exercise appears under the 6th grade (U.S.) Math Mission. This exercise analyzes a histogram created from a set of data.

Types of Problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:


 * 1) Answer the question based on the histogram: This problem has a histogram that models some data and a question related to the histogram. The student is asked to correctly answer the question based on the histogram.Reahis1.png

Strategies
Knowledge of statistical vocabulary and the method to read and create frequency tables are encouraged to ensure success on this exercise.
 * 1) The height of a bar represents the number of times the values occur in that category.
 * 2) Possible question include:
 * 3) How many total pieces of data?
 * 4) How many pieces of data in certain categories?
 * 5) How many different categories?

Real-life Applications

 * 1) Data and statistics appear in news reports and in the media every day.
 * 2) Many of the problems in this exercise could be viewed as real-life applications.
 * 3) Statistics can be seen more frequently than calculus in every day life.