by the whole class, Typed by Mr. McGaughey

Last week, we recorded how many paperclips we could link up in 2
minutes. We each made our own chain. We made a bar graph which shows
how many people made each length of chain. We used up half of the
school’s paperclip supplies (but we put them back). The longest
paperclip chain was 29 paperclips. The shortest chain was 5 paperclips.
The average chain was about 16 paperclips.

The purposes for this exercise were:

• Predict results, collect and organize data, and find the range.

• Construct a bar graph using appropriate intervals for the range of
data.

Here is a picture of our graph.