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Interpret line plots
Read an easy categorical stacked-X display or a hard numerical frequency plot. Answer ten questions using the displayed key and data.
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Interpret pictographs
Use seven ordered categories and a whole-symbol key to answer seven questions about totals, comparisons and groups.
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Read the key to find the value of one symbol. Calculate each category total as needed, then answer using the exact categories named.
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Read the axis or symbol key before answering. Hard drawing tasks state a conversion between table and axis units. A stack of X marks or pictures is a quantity only after applying its printed key.
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Translate repeated symbols into quantities and preserve the category order when comparing groups.
Worked example
One symbol represents 5 items and a row has 4 symbols. What is its total?
20 items.
Four groups of five make twenty. Counting only the symbols would give the wrong unit.
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- Easy asks for reads, extrema, a comparison, a total and categories above a threshold. Teachers should explain the symbol scale and read unfamiliar labels.
- Hard uses adjacent pairs, group subtotals, before-and-after comparisons and a mean. Adjacent means neighboring categories in the displayed order.
- Before or after a named category excludes that category itself. Include every tied pair when the question asks for all maxima or minima.
- These worksheets use whole symbols. Keep the printed key visible and round a requested mean to the nearest hundredth.
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