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Reading and Creating Graphs

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Reading and Creating Graphs

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📊 Part 1: Reading Graphs

WALT: Understand different types of graphs and interpret information from them

1. Look at this pictograph showing favourite pets in Year 4. Each 🐕 = 1 student.

Dogs: 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

Cats: 🐕🐕🐕🐕

Fish: 🐕🐕

Birds: 🐕

How many students chose dogs as their favourite pet? _______

Which pet is the least popular? _______________

2. This bar graph shows temperatures in Brisbane over one week:

Mon: 22°C | Tue: 25°C | Wed: 28°C | Thu: 24°C | Fri: 26°C | Sat: 30°C | Sun: 27°C

What was the hottest day?

Monday

Wednesday

Saturday

Sunday

3. Which type of graph would be BEST for showing:

a) The number of students in each year level at school?

Pictograph

Bar graph

Both would work

4. A column graph shows book sales at the school fair:

Fiction: 15 books | Non-fiction: 8 books | Poetry: 3 books | Comics: 12 books

How many more fiction books were sold than poetry books? _______

What was the total number of books sold? _______

✏️ Part 2: Creating Your Own Graph

5. Survey Question: Ask 5 people about their favourite season. Record your results below:
6. Create a pictograph using your survey data in the space below. Remember to include:

• A title for your graph

• Labels for each season

• A key showing what each symbol represents

7. Look at your graph and answer:

Which season is most popular? _______________

Which season is least popular? _______________

8. Explain why you chose a pictograph instead of a bar graph for your data:

🌟 Extension Challenge

9. A school canteen wants to show how many pies, sandwiches, and salads they sell each day. They sell about 50-80 of each item daily.

Which would be the MOST effective way to display this data?

Pictograph where each symbol = 1 item

Pictograph where each symbol = 10 items

Bar graph with numbers on the side

Both b and c would work well

10. Explain your choice above and why the other options might not work as well:

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