Line plots with fractions: printable worksheets

Make and read line plots in halves, quarters and eighths, and add and subtract the data to find how much more.

Sample worksheet

The first 1 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.

Here are the lengths of the pencils, in inches.

$2 \frac{3}{4}$	$4$	$3$	$3 \frac{1}{4}$	$5$
$4 \frac{1}{4}$	$4 \frac{1}{4}$	$4$	$4 \frac{1}{4}$	$3 \frac{1}{4}$

Make a line plot of the data. Put one X above the line for

each measurement.

Show answers

Number of X marks, left to right: 0; 0; 0; 1; 1; 2; 0; 0; 2; 3; 0; 0; 1

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.

4.MD.B.4: Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots. (unverified)

Before this: Measuring and line plots (Grade 3)
Next: Line plots and fraction operations (Grade 5)