US Department of Education
Nces Kids' Zone: Create a Graph
Resource from the National Center for Education Statistics allows you to create great bar graphs. Simply enter your information, choose appropriate colors, and voila!- you have a beautiful graph you can turn put into your report!
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Line Graphs
Line graphs are shown and explained here. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a line graph. There are also line graphs with questions and answers available to help you learn how to read them.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Frequency Distribution
This site from MathWorld provides a general overview of frequency distribution, complete with a bar graph and explanatory text.
US Department of Education
Nces Kids: Creating an Area Graph
This is where you will find step by step directions explaining how to create an area graph. Complete each step and click on the next tab. Directions are simple and clear.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Relative Frequency Polygon
A step-by-step worked problem from the Palomar College demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce a relative frequency polygon. Hints are provided along the way, and the final graph is shown for the user to check.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: The Normal Curve an Example
A collection of step-by-step worked problems demonstrating how to take a normal curve and determine the probability (area) under it. Hints are provided along the way and the final measures are shown for the user to check.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Behavioral Science Statistics: Frequency Histogram an Example
A step-by-step worked problem demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce a frequency histogram. Hints are provided along the way and the final graph is shown for the user to check.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Frequency Polygon an Example
A step-by-step worked problem demonstrating how to take a set of data and produce a frequency polygon. Hints are provided along the way and the final graph is shown for the user to check.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
Richland Community College
Richland College: Ti 82 Histograms / Box Plots
Richland College provides a step-by-step procedure on how to use a TI-82 to construct histograms and box plots and then use this to find frequency distribution.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: A Hairy Situation
Help Max make a bar graph to show the hair colors of his classmates. Teachers will appreciate the activities with bar graphs in the extra challenges. Use the teacher's guide to create a fun and engaging lesson.
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics
This site contains two short examples of line graphs, charts that show change over time. This is a quick introduction to the topic of statistical graphing.
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.
Other
Grinnell College: Histograms Area of Rectangles
A sample problem is provided to help you create a histogram using a frequency distribution chart. Sample charts and formulas are provided to help explain how to find the area of the rectangles in the histogram and how to interpret what...
Other
Nmu: Box and Whisker Plot Instructions
Site discusses the use of box-and-whisker plots. An example is presented and completely worked through, so that the user can see the results of the calculations after the steps have been explained.
Other
Northern Michigan University: Line Plots
The author utilizes a line plot to demonstrate what an "outlier" is, what "clusters" are, and what "gaps" are.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Probability and Statistics
Mini lessons are provided for learning concepts in the world of probability and statistics. Topics include counting and probability, permutations, combinations, independent and dependent events, and distributions. Links to online...
Richland Community College
Richland Community College: Stats Graphs Defined
Richland Community College provides a glossary of many terms that are needed in order to understand statistics graphs and charts. Each of the types of charts is quickly explained in terms of what it is most effective in displaying.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Scatter Plot
This site, which is provided for by the Palomar College, gives a sample problem of how to graph a scatter plot, including the appropriate axes.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
This page from the University of Illinois is the beginning of a series that demonstrates the difference between the mean and median of a group of numbers. The sites use bar graphs to display the data.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Bar Graphs
Two bar graph examples are shown and explained at this website. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a bar graph.