This week's Friday Five is filled with tutorials and tools for turning
data into graphs for both the primary classrooms and advanced data
users along with this Bonus Link.
Bonus Link: 5 lesson series covering several mathematics concepts
relating to data and graphs
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U151
Along with some tools you can use for these and other lessons that
include charting data
1. http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=63
Very basic bar graphs maker
2.http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspxThis graphing tools is a Kid friendly web interface for creating
different types of graphs (pies, line, bars, columns, etc)
3. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/applets/controller/query/query.htm?qt=chart&lang=en
The popular virtual manipulative site has many tools and related
activities for turning data into graphs
4. http://www.fgcu.edu/Support/office2000/excel/charts.htmlThe most common way to create graphs is to use spreadsheet's chart tools.
These tutorials cover how to do this using Microsoft Excel
5. http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/charts/
For those of you who use Open Source Tools - Open Office CALC is the
equivalent of Microsoft Excel. It's graphing features were a little
cumbersome until version 2.4 and 3.0. This site has some tips and
tutorials from Solveig Hauglaud
