Picture & Bar Graphs
Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories; solve put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph
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Show the same small data set with one-unit pictures and bars.
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Show the same small data set with one-unit pictures and bars.
Show the same small data set with one-unit pictures and bars.
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor
Before you open · source notes
An ice-cream tally supports picture and bar graph reading. Not every mean or median calculation.
Free, no sign-in. A teacher solution is on the same page, so use the student view with your child.
Before you openAsk the learner to read one category total from the display and compare two flavors.
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Source, access and review notes
Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.
Illustrative Mathematics. “Favorite Ice Cream Flavor.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — link only
Check understanding
- Draw a picture graph with a symbol representing one unit for each data point
- Draw a bar graph with labelled axes and a single-unit scale
- Use a bar graph to answer comparison questions (e.g. 'How many more votes did cats get than dogs?')
“Can your child draw a simple bar chart or picture graph to show information — like how many of each colour of sweet are in a bag — and answer questions from it?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Representational
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Data & Statistics
- Age range
- Ages 6–8
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