Life Expectancy for White and Black Americans
graph by NYTimes, slow reveal by Chris Hunter
(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)
Type of Graph: line graph
Visualization Source: Tavernise, Sabrina. “Black Americans See Gains in Life Expectancy.” New York Times: May 8, 2016.
Also see: “What’s Going On In This Graph?” (May 9, 2016)
Data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for Health Statistics; National Vital Statistics System
Potential Math Content: features of a line graph
Potential Content Connections: social justice, race, social policy, police, paired text
Further Reading: New York Times feature
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