Graphing Skills - Grades 6-8

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Summary

This toolkit will help middle school and high school students gain confidence in creating and reading graphs. Students will create graphs that are personal and relevant to their lives and interpret provided graphs. This toolkit is created by high school math teachers and is designed to prepare a student for high school level graph fluency.

Goals and Standards

Colorado Academic Standards:

5.G.A.2 The Number System: Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
6.EE.C. Expressions & Equations: Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
6.NS.C.8 Geometry: Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Include use of coordinates and absolute value to find distances between points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate.
HS.F-IF.B. Interpreting Functions: Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context.

Mathematical Practice Standards:

Math Practice MP2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Math Practice MP3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Math Practice MP4. Model with mathematics.