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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 we need to label?

Title and colours

X-axis and Y-axis

Bars and numbers

2. The height of each bar shows us:

How pretty the graph looks

How many items are in that category

What colour to use

3. 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? _______________

4. Which of these should we write on the bottom of our bar graph (X-axis)?

The numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5...)

The categories (Dogs, Cats, Fish, Birds)

Our names

📈 Part 2: Creating Your Bar Graph

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

Favourite School Subjects:

Maths: 6 students | English: 4 students | Art: 8 students | Sport: 5 students

6. Label your graph axes:

X-axis (bottom) shows: ___________________________

Y-axis (side) shows: ___________________________

7. Answer these questions about your bar graph:

a) Which subject is most popular? _______________

b) Which subject is least popular? _______________

c) How many more students like Art than English? _______________

🤔 Part 3: Reading Bar Graphs

8. Imagine you made a bar graph showing "Favourite Fruits" and the Apple bar reaches up to 7 on the Y-axis. What does this tell us?
9. Why is it important to label both axes on our bar graph clearly?
10. Think of some data you could collect in your classroom to make a bar graph. Write one idea:

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