Students come into my math class with some sort of background with scatter plots. They generally have an understanding of how graphs work, so identifying if the graph has a positive, negative, or no correlation is pretty simple for them to figure out. It probably helps that we teach this topic after they’ve had an extensive introduction to slope. Overall, interpreting scatter plot graphs may be the easiest topic that we teach all year. It’s fairly intuitive, and builds naturally on the slope concepts students study in 8th grade. In this post I’ll break down all of the notes I use to teach students to read and interpret scatter plots and bivariate data in our interactive notebooks. [Read more…] about Teaching Scatter Plots and Bivariate Data with Interactive Notebooks
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11 Activities that Make Practicing Scatter Plot Graphs Rock
Sometimes we get to teach things in 8th grade math that don’t have a lot of calculations and that have very real applications. That happens to be the case with scatter plot graphs and I love to teach it. Also, students learn a lot about slope and y-intercept and now they get to put it together with real world things. The downside is that we don’t get very many days in our schedule to teach it, so I try to pack a lot of fun and engagement into a few days. Today I’m excited to share with you 11 great activity ideas and resources to use when teaching and practicing with scatter plot graphs. [Read more…] about 11 Activities that Make Practicing Scatter Plot Graphs Rock
