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Draw bar graphs
Turn a five- or seven-category table into a bar chart. Hard practice adds an explicit conversion between the table values and axis units.
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Read bar graphs
Use a completed bar chart to read values, find changes and comparisons, or calculate sums and differences in five focused questions.
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Find the named bar, trace its height to the scale and read the units. Calculate only when the question requests a total, difference or doubled quantity.
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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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Learning objective
What this activity builds
Connect a bar’s height to a category value using the correct scale and units.
Worked example
A bar reaches the third interval on an axis counting 0, 5, 10, 15. What value does it show?
15.
Each interval represents five units, so the third interval is not a value of three.
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- Easy starts with reading and comparing values. Hard adds two- and three-value totals, a difference and a doubled quantity.
- Keep the scale visible when using a ruler to trace a bar’s height.
- Use a teacher to read the labels and scale for an early lesson; easy does not mean every graph counts in ones.
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