Big Data
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LENGTH
12 Minutes
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Description
Recruit and ruthlessly fire applicants for jobs at your company based on their ability to turn data into bar and line graphs!
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Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Comparing Representations of Data. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.
Main Concepts
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
In this game you will need to decide if a bar graph or a line graph is a better fit for a set of data in order to determine who should be hired - what are some strategies you can use to decide which type of graph is a better fit? How can you determine if a graph is aligned with its given set of data? How could you use a graph to show the colors of student shirts in our class?
After the Game
How were you able to tell which item was the most common on the bar graph? Which graph did you think was easier to read? How were you able to decide whether a bar graph or a line graph was a better way to represent the given data? In this game, line graphs were used to show a progression over time - what topic can you think of that could be used to show the data in a line graph?