Tally charts and picture graphs: printable worksheets

Sample worksheet

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What students practise

I can sort and count things, read a graph, and answer questions about the data.

Students sort objects into categories, record counts with tally marks, pictures and bars, read the key or scale of a graph, and answer how many, how many more and which has the most.

Key words

category

a group of things that are alike

tally mark

a line that counts one; four lines and a slash make five

key

the part of a graph that tells what one symbol stands for

scale

the number each step on a graph stands for

bar graph

a graph that uses the length of bars to show counts

line plot

a graph with an X above a number for each measurement

Common mistakes

• Counts the symbols on a scaled picture graph and ignores what each one stands for.
• Reads a bar that ends on a line as if it ended between two lines.
• Reports the value under a stack instead of how many X marks are in the stack.

Standards

Common Core State Standards this worksheet practises.

• 1.MD.C.4: Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another. (unverified)

Related topics

• Before this: Sorting and counting (Kindergarten)
• Next: Picture graphs, bar graphs and line plots (Grade 2)