Texas Math Models

Try “number line” or “4.5D”

Dot plot

EngageNY / Eureka: line plot

G3–4

one dot for one thing measured, stacked over its number3456rounded to the nearest inch3312441255126rounded to the nearest half inchthe same 12 pencils; the finer ruler shows the ones sitting between

How this one works

How

put one dot above the number for every single thing you measured.

Best when

you want to see which number came up the most.

seen one of these on a test? See it on a real question: TEKS 3.8A, reading a table, graph or plot, or TEKS 4.9A, dot plots and stem-and-leaf plots.

The same problem, other ways