Line graph worksheet for Pre-Algebra
A line graph shows one thing measured again and again over time. The height of each point is the value at that time, and the steepness of the line between two points is how fast it changed.
Also taught in Statistics, at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
A plant is cm in week 2 and cm in week 4. By how many centimeters did it grow?
- Read the two heights: 10 and 25.
- The change is 25 minus 10.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Taking the highest point as the greatest increase. The greatest increase is the biggest rise between two neighboring points, wherever it happens on the graph.
Also called line graph, line graphs, reading line graphs or interpreting line graphs.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Read one point
- How tall was the plant, in centimeters, in week 2? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The change between two points
- By how many centimeters did the plant's height increase from week 4 to week 5? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The greatest increase
- What was the greatest increase from one week to the next? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The mean of the values
- What was the mean number of visitors per day? — library visitors: a line graph of visitors from mon to fri →
- Percent change
- By what percent did the number of visitors decrease from Thursday to Friday? — library visitors: a line graph of visitors from mon to fri →
- Median, range and mode
- Find the range of the data in the graph. — visitors: a line graph of visitors from jan to jun →
- Make a line graph from a table
- Make a line graph of the cups of lemonade a stand sold each day.
— lemonade sales: a line graph of cups sold from day 1 to day 5 →