Lesson 5-- Showing and Comparing Lengths Using Line Plots

Choice 1:

Use the data you collected on your Indoor Scavenger Hunt or Nature Walk (Lesson 3) to create a line plot.

Then, answer these questions in your notebook:

• What was the longest object? What was the shortest?
• What was the most common measurement?  What was the least common?
• How many objects were at least 2 inches?
• How many more objects were longer than 3 inches than were shorter than 3 inches?
• Write one more question that can be answered from this line plot.

Choice 2:  Measuring Pencils Line Plot

If you have a ruler with inches available:

Collect at least 10 used pencils of different lengths, and measure them to the nearest ¼ inch. (Crayons and colored pencils are OK to use too.) 

Record the measurement data.  Use the data to create a line plot. 

Then, answer these questions:

• What was the longest object? What was the shortest?
• What was the most common measurement?  What was the least common?
• How many objects were at least 2 inches?
• How many more objects were longer than 3 inches than were shorter than 3 inches?
• Write one more question that can be answered from this data.

Choice 3:  

Use the data you collected from the Virtual Specimen Measurement Activity (Lesson 3) to create a line plot.

Then, answer these questions:

• What was the longest object? What was the shortest?
• What was the most common measurement?  What was the least common?
• How many objects were at least 2 inches?
• How many more objects were longer than 3 inches than were shorter than 3 inches?
• Write one more question that can be answered from this data.