1. How to set up successful graphs

2. How to set up your graph!

3. (This is for your dependent variable)
How to set up your graph!
Y Axis
(This is for your dependent variable)

4. How to set up your graph! X Axis
(This is for your independent variable)

5. TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
T - Title

6. TAILS T - Title A - Axis Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Y Axis = Dependent Variable
X Axis = Independent Variable

7. Decide on an appropriate scale for each axis.
TAILS
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Decide on an appropriate scale for each axis.
Choose a scale that lets you make the graph as large as possible for your paper and data
T - Title
A – Axis
S – Scale

8. How to determine scale
Favorite Singer
Number of Teachers
Toby Keith 22
Madonna 15
Elvis 11
Sting 5
Sinatra 2
Scale is determined by your highest & lowest number.
In this case your scale would be from 2 – 22.

9. How to determine Intervals
Favorite Singer
Number of Teachers
Toby Keith 22
Madonna 15
Elvis 11
Sting 5
Sinatra 2
The interval is decided by your scale.
In this case your scale would be from 2 – 22 and you want the scale to fit the graph.
The best interval would be to go by 5’s.

10. TAILS T – Title A – Axis I – Interval S – Scale
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
The amount of space between one number and the next or one type of data and the next on the graph.
The interval is just as important as the scale
Choose an interval that lets you make the graph as large as possible for your paper and data
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
S – Scale

11. TAILS T – Title A – Axis I – Interval S – Scale
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
S – Scale 25 20 15 10 5

12. TAILS T – Title A – Axis I – Interval L – Labels S – Scale
Teachers’s Favorite Singer
Label your Y Axis. What do those numbers mean?
T – Title
A – Axis
I – Interval
L – Labels
S – Scale 25 20 15
Number of Teachers 10 5
LABEL your bars or data points
Toby Keith
Madonna
Elvis
Sting
Sinatra
Singers
Give the bars a general label. What do those words mean?

13. When to use… Bar graphs Used to show data that are not continuous.
Allows us to compare data like amounts or frequency or categories
Allow us to make generalizations about the data
Help us see differences in data
Bar graphs are used to compare things between different groups or to track changes over time. 

14. When to use… Line Graphs
For continuous data
useful for showing trends over time
Line graphs are used to track changes over short and long periods of time.

15. When to use…
Pie chart -Pie charts are best to use when you are trying to compare parts of a whole.

16. How Is the Information Gathered?
A survey is made.
Chocolate
Vanilla
111
Strawberry
1111
Mint & Chip
Rocky Road 11
Bubble Gum 1

17. How Is the Information Presented?
A bar graph is made.

18. How Is the Information Presented?
A pie chart is made.

19. How Is the Information Presented?
A line graph is made.

20. What kind of graph should be used?
The amounts of time you spend in your classes in one day
Circle or bar graph

21. What kind of graph should be used?
The amount of money you spend every day for two weeks
Line or bar graph

22. What kind of graph should be used?
The number of students who play different musical instruments
Pie or bar graph
The weights of 8 different pets
Bar graph