Tip #189 from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents - Kinds of Graphs
Today's tip for parents from two talented teachers comes from 365 Teacher Secrets for Parents by Cindy McKinley Alder and Patti Trombly. #189 Different Kinds of Graphs Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. ~ Paul Lockhart Graphing is a tool used to help people see relationships between certain things. They are everywhere and are a helpful part of textbooks if you know how to read them. You can help your child by explaining that graphs are just pictures of this information. Children are usually introduced to three basic kinds of graphs in elementary school: pie, line and bar. Try finding examples of them together tonight by browsing through magazines or the newspaper. Perhaps the most common and easiest graph to create and interpret is the bar graph. You may want to start your graphing endeavors with this type. Today, think of all the ways you and your child could create a graph. Could you make...