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Discrete Data Diagrams

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Discrete Data Diagrams

Bar chart and pictogram illustration

📊 Part 1: Understanding Discrete Data

1. Which of these is an example of discrete data?

The number of pets in each family

The height of a plant growing

The temperature during the day

How long it takes to run a race

2. Look at this pictogram showing favourite sports in Year 4:

Football: ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

Tennis: ⚽⚽⚽

Swimming: ⚽⚽⚽⚽

Cricket: ⚽⚽

Each ⚽ represents 1 pupil

How many pupils chose football? _____

Which sport is the least popular? ___________

3. Using the same pictogram, how many more pupils chose football than cricket?
4. What is the total number of pupils who were asked about their favourite sport?

📈 Part 2: Reading Bar Charts

5. This bar chart shows the number of different vehicles that passed a school in one hour:

(Imagine a bar chart with: Cars = 12, Buses = 3, Bikes = 8, Lorries = 5)

How many cars passed the school? _____

How many bikes passed the school? _____

Which type of vehicle was seen most often? ___________

6. Using the vehicle data above, answer these questions:

How many more cars than buses passed the school? _____

What was the total number of vehicles counted? _____

7. Circle the best title for this bar chart:

Vehicles in the Car Park

Traffic Past School in One Hour

Types of Transport

Fast and Slow Vehicles

✏️ Part 3: Creating Your Own Data Diagram

8. A class collected data about their favourite fruits:

Apples: 5 pupils    Bananas: 8 pupils    Oranges: 3 pupils    Grapes: 4 pupils

Create a pictogram below. Use ★ to represent each pupil:

9. Look at your pictogram from question 8. Write two facts you can see from the data:

Fact 1: ________________________________________________

Fact 2: ________________________________________________

10. Explain why pictograms and bar charts are useful for showing discrete data:

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