Great Graphs and Sensational Statistics Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun

by Long, Lynette

• ISBN13: 9780471210603
• ISBN10: 0471210609
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Don't Just Learn Great Graphs and Statistics... Master Them! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you use common objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and every mathematician's basic, essential tools: paper and pencil. Inside Great Graphs and Sensational Statistics, you'll learn the basics of pictographs, bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, and map charts, and you'll see how they make information easy to understand. You'll jump into statistics, where you'll discover how to figure out the average test score on your spelling tests, how to tell the difference between percent and percentile, and how to rank order a group of numbers. You'll also practice your new math skills with such fun activities as Dangling Spoons, Weather Bingo, Tower Tallies, and Color Feud. Track the mail, test the memory of your friends, do a sleep study, and much more as you learn how graphs and statistics can reveal the world around you.

Author Biography

<b>LYNETTE LONG, PH.D.,</b> is the author of many children's math books, including <i>Fabulous Fractions, Measurement Mania</i>, and <i>Painless Algebra</i>. Also available in this series: <i>Dazzling Division, Delightful Decimal and Perfect Percents, Fabulous Fractions, Groovy Geometry, Marvelous Multiplication,</i> and <i>Measurement Mania</i>, all from Wiley.

Table of Contents

I: THE MAGIC OF GRAPHS AND STATISTICS.

II: PICTOGRAPHS.

But First...A Brief Commercial Break.

3—D Candy Pictograph.

Basketball Pictograph.

Dangling Spoons.

Televison Pictograph.

III: BAR GRAPHS.

Roll Them Bones.

Predict It.

Birthday Bars.

Bouncing Balls.

Pet Survey.

IV: PIE CHARTS.

Just Desserts.

Flipping Coins.

Shoes...Shoes...Shoes.

Tic - Tac - Toed.

Color Feud.

V: LINE GRAPHS.

Grassy Lines.

Bouncing Lines.

Stock Market.

Fat Lines.

Temperature Tracking.

Graphy Designs.

VI: MAP CHARTS.

Family Travel.

Mail Call.

Around the World.

Weather Bingo.

VII: ALL ABOUT GRAPHS AND CHARTS.

Graphing Comparisons.

Scavenger Hunt.

Who Done It?

Word Search.

VIII: STATISTICS.

Matching Means.

Mean Solitaire.

Estimating Means.

GPA.

Tower Tallies.

Median.

Hit the Target.

Sleep Study.

Baby Weigh.

Digit Span.

Rank Order.

Graphs and Statistics Master Cerificate.

Index.

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