Curriculum placement
Grade 2. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Line plots of lengths
Display measured lengths on a line plot
Problem types
- Read a line plot
- Count the dots below or above a value
- Which list of data matches the display?
- Make a line plot of the measurements
- Measure to the nearest whole unit
- Choose the line plot for the measurements
Builds on
Leads to
- Line plots with fractional lengths
- Center, spread, and shape of a distribution
- Dot plots, histograms, and box plots
- Mean and median · See it applied
The mean of data on a line plot adds each value as many times as its dots.
Related skills
- Reading scaled picture and bar graphs · Related idea
A table of counts and a dot plot are two ways to show how often each value occurs; each count in a table is a stack of dots, and each dot is one value in the original list.
- Comparing two groups by matching · Related idea
Comparing the number of dots stacked at two values on a line plot is the same group comparison, with each stack standing for a group.
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