18  Graphing Tips

This chapter might go away…

A lot of what would belong in this chapter got put into the chapter on visualizations.

Check there!

People mostly learn about graphing in CODAP by doing the getting-started lesson and then messing around. A good example of this is “plopping” attributes in the middle of graphs. In a classroom somebody will do it by mistake; you have them show the class, and now everyone can use it.

But there are a few specific gizmos in CODAP and useful techniques that you might not stumble across on your own.

18.1 Palettes

If you click on a graph, a blue-green panel appears on its right with some icons on it. Clicking on one of those reveals a menu-like palette of additional tools.