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Creating Our Bar Graphs

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Creating Our Bar Graphs

Firefighters at the station counted the equipment they checked today. Use the data to read and make a bar graph. Each square in your graph stands for 1 item.

Read the station’s data

Isla made a record of the equipment checked. The table shows how many of each item were checked.

Equipment

Items checked

Helmets

3

Hoses

5

Boots

2

Torches

4

1.Which equipment did the firefighters check the most of?
2.How many boots were checked?
  • 2
  • 3
  • 5
3.How many more hoses than helmets were checked?
4.True or false: The firefighters checked fewer boots than torches.
TrueFalse

Build the bar graph

Make a bar graph of the equipment checked. Give your graph a title. Label each bar with the equipment name, and make each bar as tall as its number. Use the graph grid below.

Draw and label four bars. Use the scale 1 square = 1 item. Add a title.
5.On your graph, which bar should be the tallest?
6.Finish the sentence: The bar for torches should reach the number .
7.Georgia says, “The boots bar is taller than the helmet bar.” Is she right? Explain using the data.
8.How many items were checked altogether? Count the helmets, hoses, boots and torches.
9.Freya says a bar graph helps us compare groups quickly. Do you agree? Write one thing the graph helps you see.

3 printable pages

  • Creating Our Bar Graphs, page 1 of 3: Read the station’s data

    Page 1

  • Creating Our Bar Graphs, page 2 of 3: Build the bar graph

    Page 2

  • Creating Our Bar Graphs, page 3 of 3: 9. Freya says a bar graph helps us compare groups quickly. Do you agree? Write one

    Page 3

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