Do Now: Find the 5 W’s of the following description.
Pew Charitable Trusts conducted a longitudinal
study that has followed families from 1968 to the
present to gain a better understanding of the
American Dream and economic mobility. They
surveyed 2227 American families asking, “What is
your “Family income” including all taxable income
(such as earnings, interest, and dividends) and cash
transfers (such as Social Security and welfare) of all
family members?”
Answers
Who: 2227 American families
What: Family income
Where: America
When: 1968 to the present
Why: to gain a better understanding of the
American Dream and economic mobility
Axum Top 15
• Carolyn Coleman
• Sophaun Brown
• Ciani Evans
• Chai Lawson
• Emini Vance
• Kijuan Matthews
• Talia Nelson
• Tylia Ross
• Elijah Wallace
• Aminah Wilkinson
• Najean Johnson
• Infinity Pennington
• Brenndan Stevens
• Justin Anson
• Dontae Lee
The Area Principle
•A bad picture can distort your
understanding of data.
•The area principle states that the area
occupied by a part of a graph should
correspond to the size of the value it
represents.
2008 Election Results
2008 Election Results:
States scaled by
population.
Always Keep in mind, what the data
is NOT telling you!!
Sankofa Rewind: The 5 W’s
The W
Question Answered
Who
The individuals or objects being observed
What
Variables observed
When
When observers collected the data
Where
Where the observations took place
Why
Why the observers have collected the data
Example: Find the 5 W’s
Last month, a writer for SHAPE magazine visits an
Arby’s restaurant chain store in Cheltenham to
collect data for each of the sandwiches it sells.
During her visit she noted the type of meat in the
sandwich, the type of meat in the sandwich, the
number of calories, and the serving size in ounces.
The data will be used to assess the nutritional
value of the different sandwiches.
Think Pair Share
•You have 5 minutes to come up with a
description of data with all 5 W’s. You must
write your description in full sentences.
•Then you will share your description with a
partner at your desk. Your partner will have
to determine what the 5 w’s in your
description are. (5 minutes)
•We will hear from a 2 groups as an entire
group (5 minutes)
How to set up your graph!
Y Axis
(This is for your
dependent variable)
How to set up your graph!
X Axis
(This is for your
independent variable)
TAILS
Teachers’ Favorite Singer
T - Title
TAILS
Teachers’ Favorite Singer
T - Title
A - Axis
Y Axis =
Amount of
Teachers
X Axis = Singer
TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Decide on an appropriate scale
for each axis.
Choose an interval that lets you
make the graph as large as
possible for your paper and data
T - Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
S – Scale
How to determine scale & intervals
Favorite
Singer
Number of Teachers
Beyonce
22
Usher
15
Anita Baker
11
Jill Scott
5
Future
2
• The interval is decided
by your scale.
• In this case your scale
would be from 2 – 22
and you want the scale
to fit the graph.
• The best interval would
be to go by 5’s
25
Number of Teachers
Label your Y Axis. What do those numbers
mean?
Teachers’ Favorite Singer
T – Title
20
15
A – Axis
10
I – Interval
5
L – Labels
0
S – Scale
Singers
LABEL your bars or
data points
Give the bars a general label.
What do those words mean?
Survey Activity
I want you to spend the next 3 minutes creating a
frequency table for your classmates. (Examples:
Shoe Size, month of birth, type of cell phone height).
CATEGORY
TALLY
COUNT
ANDRIOD
IIII
4
IPOD
III
3
Collect Data
You now have 10 minutes to survey all of your
classmates and collect data for your survey. When
you are done, go back to your desk and start
creating your bar graph.