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Pictograms to Bar Graphs

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Pictograms to Bar Graphs

📊 Part 1: Understanding Pictograms and Bar Graphs

1. Look at this pictogram showing favourite pets in our class:

🐕 Dogs: 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 (5 symbols)

🐱 Cats: 🐱🐱🐱 (3 symbols)

🐰 Rabbits: 🐰🐰 (2 symbols)

🐦 Birds: 🐦🐦🐦🐦 (4 symbols)

How many students chose dogs as their favourite pet? ______

How many students chose cats as their favourite pet? ______

How many students chose rabbits as their favourite pet? ______

How many students chose birds as their favourite pet? ______

2. Which pet was chosen by the most students?

Dogs

Cats

Rabbits

Birds

3. Which pet was chosen by the fewest students?

Dogs

Cats

Rabbits

Birds

📈 Part 2: Creating Your Bar Graph

4. Use the pictogram data from Part 1 to create a bar graph below. Colour in the squares to show how many students chose each pet.

Favourite Pets Bar Graph

Number of Students

6 |_|_|_|_|

5 |_|_|_|_|

4 |_|_|_|_|

3 |_|_|_|_|

2 |_|_|_|_|

1 |_|_|_|_|

0 |_|_|_|_|

   Dogs Cats Rabbits Birds

5. Look at your bar graph. Which statement is true?

More students chose cats than dogs

The same number of students chose rabbits and birds

Dogs were chosen by 5 students

Birds were chosen by more students than cats

6. How many more students chose dogs than rabbits? ______
7. Explain how a pictogram and bar graph show the same information in different ways:

🌟 Part 3: Extension Challenge

8. Here is a pictogram showing favourite school subjects. Each symbol = 2 students.

📚 Reading: 📚📚📚 (3 symbols = 6 students)

🔢 Maths: 🔢🔢🔢🔢 (4 symbols = 8 students)

🎨 Art: 🎨🎨 (2 symbols = 4 students)

How many students chose reading? ______

How many students chose maths? ______

How many students chose art? ______

9. If you made a bar graph of this data, which subject would have the tallest bar?

Reading

Maths

Art

10. What is special about this pictogram compared to the pet pictogram?

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