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LESSON PLAN
Level: 2n ESO
Aims: To present information drawing pictures as bar charts, pie charts and trend graphs.
To interpret these kind of pictures.

Teaching objectives:
Content
 Bar charts
 Pie charts
 Trend graphs
Communication
 Making comparisons
 Talking about quantities How many …?, What fraction …?, What percentage …?
(Language of learning)
Cognition
 Remembering which sort of picture is more suitable depending on the information.
 Applying pictures to make the information easier to understand.
 Analysing graphs.
Culture
 As we watch television or read the newspapers we are given information and statistics,
in the form of a picture (births, road-accidents, deaths, exports, etc…)

Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
 choose the more suitable picture according to the information.
 recognise the importance to use these pictures.
 construct bar charts, pie charts and trend graphs accurately.
 compare information from charts and graphs.

Tasks planned and timing:

1. Power-point to introduce the subject: what it is about and the topics that will be explained
(10 m).
2. The teacher will give out three different tables with some information and three
incomplete charts (only axis and circle). The students will have to match the tables and
the pictures.(5 m)
3. The teacher will put the students into three groups. Each group will draw one type of
picture. (15 m)
4. When they have finished, the teacher will show the solution with a power-point step by
step. (10 m)
5. Finally students will be provided with some questions related to the pictures (worksheet
A) and the answers (worksheet B). Working in pairs, they will have to be able to interpret
them through the questions.(20 m)
6. Homework: a handout to present information by means of a picture and a handout with
several questions.
Resources
 For the power-point: a computer, a screen and a projector.
 For the exercises:
 Match exercise: three photocopies with the tables and the pictures.
 Question exercise: two photocopies to each student.
 For the homework: two photocopies to each student.
Assessment
 Each exercise will be suitably marked.
 In the classroom, students will be asked to assess each other.
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The branch of Mathematics that deals with collecting

and presenting facts and figures is called Statistics.

Very often the information is presented in the form of

a picture which makes it easier to understand. In this
class, we will learn:

To choose the more suitable picture (bar charts,

trend graphs or pie charts ) according to the
information.
To draw them.
To interpret them.

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 BAR CHARTS
• Bar charts consist of Example:The bar chart below shows the
weight in kilograms of some fruit sold one
an axis and a series of day by a local market.

labelled horizontal or
vertical rectangular
bars of lengths that
show different values
for each bar.
• Bar charts are
particularly suitable for
making comparisons.

PIE CHARTS
• A pie chart is a circle
Example:
graph divided into sectors
(pieces) illustrating
frequencies or percents.
• The central angle of each
sector is proportional to
the quantity it represents.
FRACTION ·360º = CENTRAL ANGLE

• It is used to show how a

part of something relates
to the whole.

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 TREND GRAPHS
Example:The graph above shows how
• It is used when the John's weight varied from the beginning
direction or trend of of 1991 to the beginning of 1995

figures over a period

of time is required.
• In the trend graph the
time is plotted on the
horitzontal axis while
the quantity is plotted
on the vertical axis.

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 Table A: Marks scored by a class of 30 pupils in a test.

Marks 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Nº pupils 1 0 3 2 5 6 8 2 2 0 1
Table B: Average temperature at midday in Madrid for each of the twelve months of the year.

Month Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Temp.in ºC 2º 3º 8º 12º 18º 23º 28º 30º 22º 16º 8º 3º
Table C: Favourite sport of 120 first-year girls.

Favourite sport Basketball Tennis Athletics Hockey Netball

Nº girls 15 30 40 15 20

PIE CHART: Table ___ BAR CHART: Table ___

TREND GRAPH: Table ___

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 Marks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
TABLE A:
Nº pupils 1 3 2 5 6 8 2 2 0 1

TABLE A

9
8

Number of pupils
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Marks

The ‘bars’ (marks) are of equal width

and the height depends on the quantity
(nº of pupils) it represents.

TABLE B

Month Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Temp in ºC 2º 3º 8º 12º 18º 23º 28º 30º 22º 16º 8º 3º

35

30

25
Temperatures

20

15

10

0
Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Months

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 TABLE C
Sport Basketball Tennis Athletics Hockey Netball
Nº girls 15 30 40 15 20

GIRLS-SPORT

Netball Basketball

Hockey
Tennis

Athletics

Percentage Angle
PART PART
·100 · 360º
TOTAL TOTAL

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WORKSHEET A

TABLE A

1. How many pupils scored 7 marks or more?

2. Which mark was scored most frequently?
3. What percentage of the pupils got less than 4 marks?
4. Which mark was scored by exactly 3 students?

TABLE B

1. For how many months is the average midday temperature above 20ºC?
2. Which month shows an increase of 6ºC from the previous month?
3. What is the difference in temperature between the hottest and the coldest months?
4. Which months show a 50% increase in temperature over the previous month?
5. For how many of these months was the temperature falling?

TABLE C

1. What is the angle in the sector representing hockey?

2. What percentage of the students preferred tennis?
1
3. Which sport was chosen by of the girls?
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WORKSHEET B

TABLE A

1. 5 pupils
2. 6
6
3. ⋅ 100 = 20%
30
4. 2

TABLE B

1. 4 months
2. May
3. 28º
4. February and April.
5. 5 months

TABLE C

1. 45º
2. 25 %
3. Netball.

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 STATISTICS: PRESENTING INFORMATION THROUGH PICTURES.

1. Look at these pictures: 1.

2.

3.

4.

a) Re-order the letters of each word:

ORCSET / ABSR / EPI / XIAS

b) Write each word in its corresponding box.

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 2. Match the expressions and the definitions.

1. PIE CHART a) Two perpendicular directed lines used to define the

coordinates of a point.
2. ANGLE b) Way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100.
3. TREND GRAPH c) Picture used when the direction of figures over a
period of time is required.
4. AXIS d) Measurement of vertical distance.
5. WIDTH e) It is a type of information graphic that represents
tabular numeric data.
6. PERCENTAGE f) Circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating relative
frequencies or percents.
7. CHART g) Chart with rectangular bars of lengths proportional to
that value they represent.
8. SECTOR h) Portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc.
9. BAR CHART i) Distance from side to side
10. HEIGHT j) Figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint,
called vertex.

3. The table below gives the type of pet kept by members of a youth club. No
member kept more than one type of pet.

Type of pet Dog Hamster Fish Rabbit Cat Bird Pony

Number of pets 9 5 7 3 7 3 1

a) Draw a bar chart to illustrate this data.

b) Answer the following questions:

o Which was the most popular pet?

o How many members kept a pet?

o What percentage of the pets were dogs?

o Which was the third most popular pet?

o What fraction of the pets were rabbits?

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