Plotting & Reading Graphs Real-Life Math Project | Arcade Math

Are your students wannabe business managers? Do they love games? Have them manage Frankie's Arcade, and practice plotting, reading graphs, and engaging in data analysis!

This is a great supplement activity for the 6th grade statistics curriculum reviewing how to create and analyze frequency tables, dot plots, histograms, and bar graphs.

In this print-and-go activity, students complete four tasks to decide how to expand the arcade with new games, understand customer demographics and spend patterns, and select an optimal promotion schedule. It's a blast  – and puts frequency tables, dot plots, histograms and bar graphs into real world context.

What's included?

Your purchase includes a print-and-go PDF, with four tasks:

• Task 1: Frequency Table of Game Popularity
  • Objective: Decide what games to purchase
  • Skills: Construct and analyze frequency tables
• Task 2: Dot Plot of Ages of Customers
  • Objective: Understand customer demographics
  • Skills: Construct and analyze dot plots, distributions, measure of center (mean, median, mode, and range)
• Task 3: Histogram of Money Spending Patterns
  • Objective: Understand typical customer spend during visits
  • Skills: Construct and analyze histograms
• Task 4: Bar Graph for Scheduling Promotions
  • Objective: Decide the best days to run promotions
  • Skills: Construct and analyze bar graphs

All in all, it contains 10 pages:

• 1 scenario page
• 1 customer data page
• 4 task pages
• 4 answer key pages

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