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Graphing Life and Death

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Standard Use Math to Solve Problems and Communicate

Outcomes Using the TV ADD strategy, students will create and evaluate line graphs, stacked bar charts, and frequency histograms.


 
Classroom Information
GED Descriptors
     math , science
Roles
     Family, Worker, Community Member
Program Type(s)
     GED, Family Literacy, Workforce Education, Urban, Rural
NRS Learner Levels (ABE/GED)
      5, 6
Time Frame
     2.0 hours
Technology Integration
Reading Charts and Graphs
This interactive link offers practice in reading a bar graph, a pie chart, and a grid chart (with feedback).
Create a Graph
Statistics and Probability
This site, compiled by the British Broadcasting Channel, provides training in deciphering graphs with misleading messages.
Think Aloud Teaching Strategy
Admit/Exit Slips Teaching Strategy

Keywords
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bullet Math > graphs
bullet Math
bullet Math > problem solving
bullet Math > data

Purposeful, Transparent, Contextual, Building Expertise
Purposeful and Transparent
Graphs and charts permeate our daily lives in the form of news, advertisements, and academic tasks. In many professions the adult learners may enter, it will be useful—or even essential—for them to be able to read charts and graphs. This lesson teaches the TV ADD strategy, and then uses it to analyze three graphs.

Contextual
Actual charts and graphs related to the health field are used throughout the lesson. Questions are posed to encourage discussions relevant to issues facing students (and thus to underscore the importance of mathematical reasoning).

Building Expertise
Students will likely have exposure to reading basic charts and graphs before this lesson. However, they will learn to apply the TV ADD strategy in this lesson in order to analyze the various types of information contained within a graph. The final couple questions in each task are designed to be thought-provoking and call for a blend of quantitative and qualitative reasoning, which will help adults on standardized tests and in their daily life decisions.


Lesson Designer
Dan Showalter
Cental Southeast ABLE Resource Center
(740) 593-4419
1aslanseyes@gmail.com


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