Interpreting and presenting data in pictograms and bar charts

Interpreting and presenting data in pictograms and bar charts

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will construct pictograms and bar charts from given data, as well as looking at the limitations of graphs.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

5 Questions

Q1.
Tallies are recorded in groups of ...
1
2
3
4
Correct answer: 5
Q2.
What does this tally show?
1
4
Correct answer: 5
6
Q3.
Which mode of transport has 7?
bicycle
bus
Car
Correct answer: motorbike
Q4.
How many buses were seen?
1
2
3
Correct answer: 4
5
Q5.
When are tallies not very useful?
If the numbers are very small
If there are only 3 different things being recorded
When recording modes of transport
Correct answer: When the numbers are large

5 Questions

Q1.
Is this a pictogram or a bar chart?
Bar chart
Correct answer: Pictogram
Q2.
If this symbol represents 5 what would a whole one represent?
Correct answer: 10
2
20
6
Q3.
What would be a good title for this data?
Colour of cars seen from the playground
Ice-creams eaten in one week
Correct answer: Leaves found in the park
Weather in Dover
Q4.
Bar charts can make large amounts of data easier to understand than pictograms, true or false?
False
Correct answer: True
Q5.
Which of the questions below cannot be answered by using this bar chart?
Correct answer: How much was spent in class 6?
What is the total amount of money spent by all four classes?
Which class had £15 spent?
Which class had half the money spent as class 2?

Lesson appears in

UnitMaths / Graphs