Tracking Trends: Exit Ticket

Ready to wrap up your learning with a quick check of your trend-tracking skills? In Tracking Trends: Exit Ticket, you’ll use your knowledge of graphs and data to spot patterns, analyze change, and make smart predictions. This short but meaningful activity helps you show how well you can read and interpret data in tables and graphs — just like a real data analyst!

You’ll begin by looking at simple graphs or data tables that show how values change over time — like temperature across a week, sales during a month, or distance traveled over time. Your job is to track the trend: is the data increasing, decreasing, or staying steady? Each observation helps you describe the story the numbers are telling.

As you analyze, you’ll practice explaining what the trends mean and predicting what might happen next. For example, if a line graph shows a steady rise, what does that suggest about future data? If it dips or flattens, what could that tell you? Thinking this way helps you connect math to real-world problem-solving and prediction.