Smart Poll Pie Chart is one of the most useful applications on mrnussbaum.com. It enables student to conduct polls with their classmates, enter data, make a bar graph or pie chart, and then answer the interactive questions generated by the smart poll.

Students must first conduct a poll with classmates. Examples include "What is your favorite ice cream flavor"?, or "What is your favorite pet?" With Smart Poll, students can give students pre-thought of choices, or, record all answers given. When students access Smart Poll, they must enter their name and the name of the poll. Students enter labels (i.e. strawberry) and corresponding values (i.e. 7) separately in the boxes provided. The pie chart will generate automatically. Students should check the box labeled "show labels" to see the labels on the chart. Students can rotate the chart by using the arrow keys, and can generate the bar graph by checking the box labeled "show bar graph".

Smart Poll also generates multiple choice questions from the data provided so that students learn to read and interpret the graph or chart. Check answers by clicking on "validate". The graph or chart can be printed by clicking the right button on the mouse and selecting "print".

The Bar Graph application generates a bar graph from information submitted by the student.

The student must first conduct a poll with classmates, or, have information available to be graphed. When students access the Bar Graph application, they must first enter the title of the graph (where it says "graph title"). Next, the student should delete the percentage symbol in "suffix", unless they are graphing percentages, dollars, or numerical values that require a symbol of some sort. Students can then enter a description of their graph, along with labels for the "X" and "Y" axes. Students can choose the color of the font and the grid. They can also choose the type of font to be displayed. To generate the bars in the grid, students must click on "add item". This should be repeated as many times as necessary. When students are finished entering the information, he or she should click on "generate graph". The program will generate a usable bar graph for the student to print out.