These activities take students from a real graph to a pictorial graph to a symbolic graph. Students actively engage in developing functional concepts through patterning. Students actively participate in making all three types of graphs. The collected data is organized into graphs.
Students look for patterns in the graphs and try to predict what comes next.
A T-chart helps students to organize the data symbolically. Using math journals helps students describe the pattern. The information from the pattern is used for analyzing, making predictions, and drawing conclusions. These lessons encourage students to explore the many ways to collect and record data. The groundwork for functional concepts is developed through patterning.