Picture graphs, bar graphs and line plots: printable worksheets
Read picture graphs, bar graphs and line plots of whole-unit lengths, and solve one-step and two-step comparison questions.
Sample worksheet
The first 4 problems of a real worksheet, made the way the builder makes it. Open it in the builder to change the number of problems, the difficulty and the layout, then print.
1.
a. How many balls are there?
b. How many fewer balls than trees are
there?
c. Which kind has the fewest?
2.
a. How many dogs are there?
b. How many more blocks than dogs are there?
c. Which kind has the fewest?
3.
a. How many flowers are there?
b. How many fewer trees than leaves are
there?
c. Which kind has the fewest?
4.
a. How many flowers are there?
b. How many fewer bears than balls are
there?
c. Which kind has the fewest?
Show answers
1.
| a. | 7 |
| b. | 1 |
| c. | Blocks |
2.
| a. | 3 |
| b. | 4 |
| c. | Dogs |
3.
| a. | 3 |
| b. | 2 |
| c. | Hearts |
4.
| a. | 7 |
| b. | 6 |
| c. | Bears |
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.
- 2.MD.D.9: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units. (unverified)
- 2.MD.D.10: Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph. (unverified)
Related topics
- Before this: Tally charts and picture graphs (Grade 1)
- Next: Scaled picture and bar graphs (Grade 3)