A middle school mathematics teacher asks the following question to the class:
Which type of graph would best represent the following situations?
(a) Daily temperature readings of a city over a week.
(b) The number of books read by different students in a class.
The teacher's main aim behind this question is to—
1
Teach students to represent numerical data using histograms.
2
Enable students to choose appropriate graphs based on the type of data.
3
Introduce students to the concept of mean, median, and mode.
4
Teach students how to calculate angles for pie charts.