Graphing Teaching Resources
Teach graphing this school year with printable worksheets, fun graphing activities and games, task cards and more teacher-created resources for elementary school math!
This collection of editable teacher-created resources is aligned with the Common Core curriculum. It has been carefully reviewed by the expert teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure every single digital or printable resource is ready to use in the classroom. That means you can save hours on lesson planning with activities ready to print or use digitally!
Are you looking to learn more about teaching students to use graphs, or just on the hunt for fresh ideas and activities to engage your students? Read on for a primer from our teacher team, including a look graphing on this level and some key vocabulary!
What Is Graphing? A Kid-Friendly Definition
Graphing starts as early as kindergarten or first grade in many schools around the country with simple pictographs. But how do you explain what graphing is to the youngest students? This kid-friendly definition may help.
Graphing is a way to show information using pictures and symbols. It's sort of like drawing a picture that helps you understand numbers and facts.
For example, we could use graphs to show how many kids in our class like different colors or how many toys in the toy bin are cars.
Graphing Vocabulary for Elementary Teachers
Looking for a guide to some of the graphing vocabulary your students will encounter — and you will have to define? Here's a comprehensive look, along with some simple definitions!
- Data —Information that is collected and analyzed
- Axis — The horizontal and vertical lines that make up a graph.
- X-axis — The horizontal axis on a graph
- Y-axis — The vertical axis on a graph
- Bar — A rectangular shape we use to represent data on a bar graph
- Scale — The units used to measure data on a graph
- Pictogram/pictograph — A graph that uses pictures to represent data
- Legend/key — A chart that explains the symbols used on a graph (students may recognize this from their map skills lessons)
- Line of best fit — A straight line on a graph that represents the overall trend in a set of data
- Line plot — A graph that shows the frequency of data values on a number line
- Tally — A mark used to represent data on a tally chart
- Pie chart — A graph that shows the proportion of each data value to the whole, represented as a circle that looks like a pie
- Line graph — A graph that shows the relationship between two variables using a line
- Data point — An individual value on a graph
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Valentine's Day Seek and Find Printable
Engage your students’ counting skills with our search and find Valentine's Day activity.
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Picture Graph Playoff – Math Game
A fun game for students to practice gathering and representing data in a picture graph.
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Data Vocabulary Poster
A poster that explains the concept of data and lists associated vocabulary.
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Types of Graphs Posters and Worksheets
A collection of posters displaying the different types of graphs along with matching worksheets to assist students with laying out graphs on the page.
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Data Match-Up Cards (Set 5)
A match-up activity for students to use when exploring data.
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Data Match-Up Cards (Set 4)
A match-up activity for students to use when exploring data.
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Data Match-Up Cards (Set 3)
A match-up activity for students to use when exploring data.
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Understand Sequence Poster
A poster highlighting how to sequence when reading a piece of text.
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Data Match Game Cards (Set 2)
A match up game for students to use when exploring data.
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Types of Graphs Posters
This colorful and easy-to-digest visual display shows students the varying data displays they will encounter in their elementary math lessons.
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Data Math Investigation - Should I Buy It?
Practice collecting and graphing data in a real-world situation.
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Chance and Data Math Investigation - Roll Me a Six!
A mathematics investigation involving chance and data, embedded in a real-world context.
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Data Math Investigation - Which Reward?
A mathematics investigation involving data collection and representation, embedded in a real-world context.
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Parts of a Graph (Black and White Version)
A poster showing the different parts of a graph.
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Parts of a Graph (Color Version)
A poster showing the different parts of a graph.
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Statistics Word Wall Vocabulary
A comprehensive selection of statistics vocabulary for use on a Mathematics Word Wall.
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Data Match Game Cards (Set 1)
A match-up game for students to use when exploring data.
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Data Match Game Cards (Set 2)
A match-up game for students to use when exploring data.
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Mean, Median, Mode, and Range - Posters
A set of posters to use when teaching numerical data summaries to your students.
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How To Calculate The Mean - Poster
A set of two posters which clearly show how to calculate the average of a group of numbers.
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Data Collection - Worksheets
A set of worksheets for students to plan survey parameters and tally data.
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Online Dice Roller
Roll out a free online dice roller, designed for classrooms, with the ability to roll as many as 6 different types of dice at a time. This teacher-created resource is the perfect addition to your next math lesson plan!
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Data Match-Up Cards Resource Pack
A match-up activity resource pack for students to use when exploring data.
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