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Creating Bar and Pie Charts

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Creating Bar and Pie Charts

Creating Bar and Pie Charts

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📊 Part 1: Understanding Graphs

1. What is data? Circle the best answer:

Information we collect and organise

A type of food

A computer game

2. Which of these are types of graphs? Check all that apply:

Bar graph

Pie chart

Shopping list

Circle graph

3. Fill in the blanks:

A _________ graph shows quantities side-by-side using bars of different heights.

A _________ chart shows parts of a whole using slices of a circle.

🍎 Part 2: Reading Data

4. Look at this data about favourite fruits in our class:

Apples: 8 students

Bananas: 5 students

Oranges: 3 students

Grapes: 4 students

5. Answer these questions about the fruit data:

a) Which fruit is the most popular? _______________

b) Which fruit is the least popular? _______________

c) How many more students like apples than oranges? _______________

d) What is the total number of students? _______________

6. Use comparison words to complete these sentences:

Bananas are _________ popular than grapes. (more/less)

Oranges and grapes have _________ the same number of votes. (nearly/exactly)

📈 Part 3: Creating a Bar Graph

7. Use the fruit data from Part 2 to create a bar graph below:
8. What do you need to remember when drawing a bar graph? Check all that apply:

Make bars the same width

Space bars equally apart

Make bar height match the number

Use different colours for each bar

Label the axes

🥧 Part 4: Understanding Pie Charts

9. Draw a simple pie chart for the fruit data in the circle below:
10. In a pie chart, what does each slice represent?
11. Match the graph type with what it shows best:
1. Bar graph
2. Pie chart
A. Parts of a whole
B. Comparing quantities

🏃 Part 5: Sports Data Challenge

12. Here is data about favourite sports in Year 3:

Rugby: 6 students

Netball: 8 students

Swimming: 4 students

Cricket: 2 students

13. Create a bar graph for the sports data:
14. Answer these questions about the sports data:

a) Which sport has the tallest bar? _______________

b) How many students chose rugby or cricket combined? _______________

c) Which two sports have a difference of 4 students? _______________ and _______________

15. Why is it useful to show data in graphs? Write your answer:

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