Lesson Plan: Pie Charts Mathematics
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use pie charts to analyze data, communicate information, and draw conclusions from this data.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- understand that the measures of the angles of the sectors about the center of a circle sum to ,
- analyze pie charts by considering what percentage of the whole each segment represents,
- interpret data in pie charts to answer questions.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- percentages of amounts,
- analyzing pie charts divided into equal-sized segments.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- drawing pie charts.