6th Grade Math Textbook, Fundamentals

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1.Make a graph of how you spend a typical 24-hour weekday.

• List how much time you spend each day on each activity.
  Use these categories for your data: school, travel, sports, eating,
  sleeping, and free time


• Record your data in a table.


• Use the data to make a circle graph. Label your graph and give it a title.


• Write a brief summary of what your graph shows.


• Compare your graph with those of your classmates. What similarities
  do you notice? How do the graphs differ?

2.Discuss and Write What was the easiest part of the graph-making task?

What was the most difficult part of the construction? Explain.

Use the protractor to measure and draw

the central angle for another section.

Carbon

64.8

234

65%

18%

Oxygen

Continue measuring and drawing angles until

the graph is finished. Label each section with

its element and percent. Give your graph a title.

Oxygen

65%

Carbon

Hydrogen 18%

10%

Nitrogen

3%

All others

4%

Major Elements

in the Body

Iman surveys all her classmates about their favorite sport. Of students

surveyed, 15 name soccer, 3 name baseball, and 12 name football. Make

a circle graph. Label each section of the graph with the name of the sport

and the percent of the class naming that sport as the favorite.

• Find the number of students surveyed.
  15  3  12  30


• Find the percent that liked each sport.
  Then find the size of each sector.

Soccer: 0.5 50%, and 0.5 • 360

 180

Baseball: 0.1 10%; and 0.1 • 360

 36

Football: 0.4 40%, and 0.4 • 360

 144

• Use the data to make a circle graph.

12  6

30  6

12

30

3  3

30  3

3

30

15  15

30  15

15

30

1

Soccer

50%

Baseball

10%

Football

40%

Popularity of Sports