Learning How to Graph

Fun and engaging practice. All students were able to independently participate and practice skills.

This made teaching graphs so easy. It has everything you need to teach, and to assess your students ability in graphs.

I purchased this resource hoping to use it to help my students learn the requirements for a graph and how to label the X-axis and Y-axis with appropriate values. I think the acronym T.A.I.L.S. adequately explains that a graph requires a title, axis labels/titles, and labeled values on the coordinates. However, I do not feel the example situations and example data allow students to practice the skill of selecting an appropriate interval necessary to construct an accurate graph, which was disappointing as this is the "I" in T.A.I.L.S. Half of tasks have the X values/independent variable values as specific dates like September 1st making it more difficult than necessary for students to identify the scale and the interval, and made it very hard for me to reinforce that each unit in the plane needs to represent the same value and students need to decide what they need to skip count by to fit the given X values on the provided grid. This was made even worse by the fact that the example table of x and y values for matching change the dates into decimals (i.e. September 1st becomes 9.1) which is very very confusing to students that will need to convert units of time in later studies of Ratios and Proportions. I also did not like the subject matter of two of the example situations. For middle schoolers weight can be a sensitive subject and providing questions about diets and weight loss can lead to negative self image or unsavory comments about a classmate's weight like "Sally needs to join Sean in this diet". This might be less fraught with younger students, but I would not include this question type in a resource for older students. Another situation mentioned a student getting frustrated and taking breaks in the hallway frequently which would be a 504 or IEP accommodation at my school, and could have called attention to students that received that accommodation highlighting they are different from their peers and require extra breaks to manage their frustration. Again maybe this would not have caused an issue with younger students or in classes without a student with this accommodation, but middle schoolers notice this type of thing. I changed the wording to make the problem about breaks while completing specified minutes of homework.

Great resource

Great for teaching graphing!

Love this! Will use every year!

Use this all the time to assess and reteach graphing

Great idea for graphing