Activity Description Sort colored shapes into a bar graph. Practice sorting by shape or by color. Appropriate for elementary grades.

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Bar Graph Sorter

Place in mathematics curriculum:

• Introduce bargraphs.
  
• Help students learn to sort by a particular attribute.
  

This activity allows the user to explore simple bargraphs through sorting shapes by color or shape into the graph. This activity would work well in conjunction with the Bar graph and/or Venn Diagram Shape Sorter activity.

Preparations for this activity:

• give directions on what they are to do. For example, let them know what settings you would like them to use and what the differences between the settings are.
  
• explain tallies.
  
• discuss examples or other data that could be used in a bar graph and what types of data that could not be used in a bar graph.