Know Individual skills Integration Understand principles Skills Strategy Decide the type of chart or Explain why different kinds of graph to draw based on its data are better displayed on purpose or type of data different kinds of graphs Select a good way to display data Explain the choice of starting Design a table for data point for axes, zero or non-zero being gathered. Explain the choice of a straight line or curve of best fit Label the x axis with the name of the independent Explain the choice of type of variable and the y axis with graph the dependent variable Write unit labels on the axes Decide which numbers to Draw line graphs to start and finish with on display relationships each axis Mark out an equal scale showing what each square of graph paper represents Draw a straight line or a curve of best fit through the points Key words Continuous variable Has Line graph Shows the Scatter graph Shows the values that can be any relationship between two independent variable vs number continuous variable dependent variable Discontinuous variable Pie chart Shows the Has values that are or proportions or discrete numbers percentages that make up a whole Bar chart/column graph Displays the values of A straight Line of best fit categories or curved line to show the pattern of data points
Know Individual skills Integration Understand principles Skills Strategy Decide the type of chart or graph to draw based on its purpose or type of data Design a table for data being gathered. Select a good way to display data Explain why different kinds of data are better displayed on different kinds of graphs Explain the choice of starting point for axes, zero or non-zero Explain the choice of a straight line or curve of best fit Label the x axis with the name of the independent variable and the y axis with the dependent variable Write unit labels on the axes Decide which numbers to start and finish with on each axis Mark out an equal scale showing what each square of graph paper represents Draw a straight line or a curve of best fit through the points Draw line graphs to display relationships Explain the choice of type of graph Key words Continuous variable Has values that can be any number Discontinuous variable Has values that are or discrete numbers Bar chart/column graph Displays the values of categories Line graph Shows the relationship between two continuous variable Pie chart Shows the proportions or percentages that make up a whole Line of best fit A straight or curved line to show the pattern of data points Scatter graph Shows the independent variable vs dependent variable
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