Scaled picture and bar graphs: printable worksheets
Read and draw scaled picture graphs and bar graphs where each symbol or grid step stands for 2, 5 or 10, and solve one-step and two-step 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 trees are there?
b. How many more blocks than balls are
there?
c. How many things are not trees?
2.
a. How many hearts are there?
b. How many more mugs than blocks are there?
c. How many more mugs and blocks together
than dogs are there?
3.
a. How many apples are there?
b. How many fewer apples than balls are
there?
c. How many things are not cats?
4.
a. How many trees are there?
b. How many fewer trees than hearts are
there?
c. How many more dogs and trees together
than cars are there?
Show answers
1.
| a. | 5 |
| b. | 10 |
| c. | 60 |
2.
| a. | 5 |
| b. | 10 |
| c. | 55 |
3.
| a. | 10 |
| b. | 25 |
| c. | 115 |
4.
| a. | 10 |
| b. | 5 |
| c. | 20 |
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.
- 3.MD.B.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step 'how many more' and 'how many less' problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. (unverified)
Related topics
- Before this: Picture graphs, bar graphs and line plots (Grade 2)
- Next: Measuring and line plots (Grade 3)