It is quite a bit of work to manually make a bar chart of a set of data results in a Mathematics Workbook.
So in the 1960’s, John Tukey came up with a simplified version of the standard bar chart, which uses numbers instead of bars.
This simplified horizontal chart is called a “Stem and Leaf Plot”, a “Stem and Leaf Diagram”, a “Stem Plot”, a “Stem and Leaf Graph”, an “S & L Plot”, or an “S & L Diagram”.
In this lesson we cover the following:
How a Bar Chart and Stem and Leaf Plot are similar
How to Read a Stem and Leaf Plot
How to Get the Median from a Stem and Leaf Plot
How to Make a Groups of 10 Stem and Leaf Plot
How to Make a Groups of 5 Stem and Leaf Plot
This material is contained in the following Slideshare Presentation of a PowerPoint we made here at Passy World.
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Slideshow About S&L Plots
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[slideshare id=12058436&doc=stemandleafppa-120318194523-phpapp02]
How To Make an Unordered S&L Plot
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVxdqVPmZ4]
How to Make a Stem and Leaf Plot
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7m0Q_m2ppg]
Here is another video on S&L Plots
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-dbtOetvmc]
Finding the Median from an S&L Plot
Here is a video which shows two examples of finding the Median. (Unfortunately, the second example is a bit chopped off on the video).
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcRqS40z9A]
The following five minute video shows how to find the Median, as well as the first and fourth quartiles.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnPJEPG8tE]
Online Stem and Leaf Maker
The above online Stem and Leaf maker is from Mr Nussbaum’s web site.
Put the item values in one by one, which is a bit slow, and then when ready click “Create Graph”.
This online maker only does Groups of Ten S&L Plots.
It also does not include “empty” stems, which have no data values in their range.
Click the following link to use this free S&L maker.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/graph/sl.htm
Advanced Online Stem and Leaf Maker
This S&L maker does Mean, Median etc, and if we tick the box “Split Stems in Two”, it even does a Groups of Five stem and leaf plot.
The example S&L Plot shown above is a Groups of Five Plot.
Click the following link to use this free S&L maker.
http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/statistics/stemleaf.php
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Mean Median Mode of Ungrouped Data
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Grouped Data Histogram Graphs
Symmetry and Skew
Basic Histogram Graphs
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MS Excel Column Graphs and Pie Charts
Funny Graphs from Graph Jam
Misleading Graphs
Real Life Graphs
Free Online Graph Makers
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