Line plots and fraction operations: printable worksheets
Use line plots in halves, quarters and eighths to find totals, differences and a fair share.
Sample worksheet
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This line plot shows the lengths of the crayons, in inches.
a. How much longer is the longest crayon than the shortest
crayon? inches
b. How much longer is a crayon that is inches long than
a crayon that is inches long? inches
c. How much longer is a crayon that is inches long than
a crayon that is inches long? inches
Show answers
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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.
- 5.MD.B.2: Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots. (unverified)
Related topics
- Before this: Line plots with fractions (Grade 4)