Data and Graphs

• Analyze and Create Misleading Graphs

  Students will create purposefully misleading graphs to better learn how proper graphs should be created.

  Show 7 Steps

  1. Technique 1: Showing Just a Moment

  2. Technique 2: Bar Graphs with Bad Scales

  3. Technique 3: Leaving Out Information

  4. Technique 4: Asking the Wrong Group

  5. Technique 5: Line Graphs with Bad Scales

  6. Bonus: Getting Too Fancy

  7. Now, your students will produce their own bad graphs.