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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.MD.D.9Unit 10: Data: line plots & bar graphs

Line plots

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🎯 Objective: Students measure objects and show the data on a line plot.

Lesson outline

  1. Measure hand spans in inches.
  2. Build a class line plot.
  3. Discuss what the plot shows.
  4. Exit: what length was most common?

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2.MD.D.9

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Make line plots of measurement data
  • Draw picture and bar graphs and solve problems with them

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Money & time to 5 minutes📚 All 2nd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Data: line plots & bar graphs”

  1. Line plots
  2. Bar graphs
  3. Solve problems with graphs

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