Colors per National Flag

Colors per National Flag around the World
graph from DynaMath (Jeanette Ferrera) & Ferdio; slow reveal by Jenna Laib

(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)

Type of Graph: bar graph

Visualization Source #1: Ferrera, Jeanette. “Flag Day Stats.” DynaMath: May/June 2019.

Data Source #1: Loesche, Dyfed. “Vexillology: Most Flags Combine Red, White and Blue.” Statista: January 13, 2017.
Rob Raeside. “Statistics on Flag Colors.” Flags of the World: June 8, 2012.

Visualization Source #2: Morgenstjerne, Jeppe (Creative Director). Flag Stories. Ferdio: 2015.

Data Source #2: “Original Flags”

Additional Paired Texted/Resources:

• Swanson, Ana. “The World’s Flags, in 7 Charts.” The Washington Post: April 7, 2016.
• Ferdio. Flag Stories.
• Wikipedia. List of Flags by Number of Colors.
• Rob Raeside. “Statistics on Flag Colors.” Flags of the World: June 8, 2012.

Potential Math Content: bar graph, estimating values, labels, comparing data sets

Potential Content Connections: global society, flags, national symbols, colors