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Creating Data Graphs

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Creating Data Graphs

Read each question carefully. Use the spaces provided to show your thinking and draw your graphs.

Choosing and Understanding Graphs

1.A class records how many students choose each playground game. Which graph would make it easy to compare the number choosing each game?
  • Bar graph
  • Pie chart
  • Number line
2.Which graph is especially useful for showing how a whole is divided into parts?
  • Pie chart
  • Bar graph
  • Number line
3.In a pictograph, each star stands for 3 stickers. How many stickers do 5 stars represent?
4.Select all the features that help make a graph clear and useful.
  • A title that describes the data
  • Labels for the categories or axes
  • A key when symbols are used
  • Bright colours on every part

Read and Create Graphs

Fruit

Students

Apples

7

Bananas

5

Pears

4

Oranges

2

5.Which fruit was chosen by the most students?
6.How many more students chose apples than bananas?
7.Create a graph for the favourite fruit results in the table using separate bars. Include a title, category labels and a scale that fits the data.
8.Give one reason this type of display is a helpful way to show the favourite fruit results.
9.Which kind of graph could show each fruit choice as a part of all the students surveyed?

Data in Everyday Life

10.You want to find out which kind of book is most popular in your class. Write a question you could ask your classmates to collect this data.
11.For the book survey in the previous question, name a graph that would compare the number of votes for each book type. Explain why it would work.
12.Four children counted the books they read last month. Draw a pictograph using one book symbol for every 2 books read. Include a title and a key.

Talia — 6 books

Chloe — 4 books

Sienna — 8 books

Hudson — 2 books

3 printable pages

  • Creating Data Graphs, page 1 of 3: Choosing and Understanding Graphs, Read and Create Graphs

    Page 1

  • Creating Data Graphs, page 2 of 3: Bananas 5

    Page 2

  • Creating Data Graphs, page 3 of 3: Data in Everyday Life

    Page 3

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