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Creating Simple Bar Graphs

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Creating Simple Bar Graphs

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📊 Part 1: Understanding Bar Graphs

1. What are the two main parts of a bar graph that need labels?

The title and the colours

The x-axis and y-axis

The bars and the paper

2. Look at this data about favourite pets in our class:

Dogs: 8 students, Cats: 5 students, Fish: 3 students, Birds: 2 students

Which pet would have the tallest bar on our graph?

Dogs

Cats

Fish

Birds

3. What does the height of each bar show us?

How much we like that item

How many times that item was chosen

What colour the item is

4. When we label the bottom of our graph (x-axis), what do we write there?

✏️ Part 2: Creating Your Bar Graph

5. Use this data to create a bar graph in the space below:

Favourite School Subjects:

Maths: 6 students, Art: 9 students, Sport: 7 students, Reading: 4 students

6. Write labels for your graph:

Title: _________________________________

Bottom axis (x-axis): _________________________________

Side axis (y-axis): _________________________________

7. Look at your bar graph and answer these questions:

a) Which subject is most popular? ____________________

b) Which subject is least popular? ____________________

c) How many more students chose Art than Reading? ______

🤔 Part 3: Reading Bar Graphs

8. If you saw a bar graph showing "Favourite Colours" and the blue bar reached up to 10, what would that tell you?
9. Why are bar graphs useful for showing information?

They are easy to read quickly

They help us compare different groups

They look colourful and pretty

They show which group has the most or least

10. Think of something you could collect data about in your classroom. What would you like to make a bar graph about?

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