Connecting stories to qualitative coordinate graphs has been suggested as an effective instructional strategy. Even students who are able to "create" bar graphs may struggle to correctly "interpret" them. Giving children opportunities to work with qualitative graphs can help them develop the skills to interpret, describe, and compare information…

Describes an activity on data management and statistics in which students were asked to think of a topic and collect information on it to analyze and represent in graphs. (ASK)

Describes data exploration and graphing based on data in the story "Ten for Dinner" by Jo Ellen Bogart. (MKR)

Suggests ways to translate ideas in the book, "The Story of Z," into data analysis activities in kindergarten and second-grade classrooms. (MKR)

Describes data analysis activities for grades three through six using unshelled peanuts. Includes two reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)

Introduces a unit on data analysis which would not only satisfy elementary statistics requirements but also involve students in a long-term mathematics project in a meaningful and relevant way. Addresses the mathematical concepts of measurement, graphing, and computation. (ASK)

This article describes a unit of instruction designed to promote algebraic thinking in second graders. Students examined second- and fourth-grade students' ages and heights on a table and graph and described the patterns that they observed in the data.

Explores algebraic thinking as children search for patterns while collecting, organizing, and graphing data and as they derive equations describing relationships found in the data. (ASK)