Pie Chart 3D Free

Pie Chart 3D Free allows users to easily create and modify pie charts. After launching the app, users are presented with a modifiable pie chart. To modify it, users must tap the slice of the pie chart that they wish to edit, which brings up a new screen. On it, users are able to change the slice’s label, its value, the color that represents it, and its location on the pie chart. If users wish to add a new slice, they can tap the “add slice” button, located on the bottom of the app’s main screen. When viewing their pie chart, users can rotate it by dragging their finger over it, and they can zoom in or scale back from it by pinching their fingers. Additionally, users can tap the “Gear” button on the bottom of the app’s main screen to access more features that allow users to title the chart, add decimals, turn on/off the slice labels, and choose how values are represented. Users can save their pie chart by taking a screen shot of it and accessing it from their iPad’s camera roll. This will allow users to share their pie charts.

Please note: This app contains a few bugs. However, it is still usable in the classroom.

Instructional Ideas

1. Teachers can give students a data set and have them interpret the data and format it on a pie chart made using this app, then save it by taking a screen shot. Next, teachers can have students write a paragraph that explains the data in their pie chart. Lastly, teachers can require students email them their pie chart and paragraph.
2. Teachers can have students analyze how they spend their time using this app. To do so, teachers can have students record the amount of time they spending doing different activities over the course of a week. Activities may include being in school, sleeping, playing sports, participating in clubs, reading, watching television, talking with friends and family, and other various activities. At the end of the week, teachers can have students find percentages for the amount of time they spent doing the activities they listed. Students can then display that data on a pie chart made with this app. Finally, students can write a paragraph that explains how they spend their time, and send their teachers the paragraph and pie chart.
3. Teachers can give students a word problem that requires the data to be represented on a pie chart in order to be solved. Students can then analyze the data in the word problem and solve it by making a pie chart using this app. Students can then email their teacher both the pie chart and their solution.
4. After students become familiar with pie charts, teachers can have students create a pie chart using this app and a pie chart using Microsoft Excel. Teachers can then have students explain if they like using this app or Excel better. Specific prompts that students can respond to either in writing or orally include: (1) Is it easier to make a pie chart using Excel or this app? (2) Are pie charts more visually appealing when they are made in Excel or this app? (3) If a friend of yours was going to make a pie chart, would you recommend that he or she use Excel or this app?
5. When giving a presentation, students can be required to present their work using this app as a visual aid.

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