Making an Ice Cream Line Graph

Worksheet Description

Tom gathered data about the favorite flavor of ice cream in his class.   Take the data that he has compiled in the chart and make a line graph from it.

This worksheet is centered around the task of creating a line graph based on the data collected by Tom about his classmates’ favorite ice cream flavors. The data is presented in a table that lists different ice cream flavors along with the number of students who prefer each flavor. Students are instructed to use this data to plot a line graph on the provided axes, with the flavors on the horizontal axis and the number of votes each flavor received on the vertical axis. The worksheet combines both tabular and graphical data representation in one exercise.

The worksheet aims to teach students how to translate data from a table into a line graph, which is a fundamental skill in data visualization. It helps them understand how to plot points on a graph based on the data provided and then connect those points to form a line graph. This activity encourages the understanding of trends and comparisons within categorical data. By creating the graph, students learn how to organize and present data in a way that is easy to interpret and analyze, a key competency in mathematics and sciences.