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Course: MAP Recommended Practice > Unit 24
Lesson 17: Bar graphs- Creating picture and bar graphs
- Creating bar graphs
- Create bar graphs
- Reading bar graphs: Harry Potter
- Reading bar graphs: movies
- Reading bar graphs
- Read bar graphs
- Interpreting bar graphs: colors
- Reading bar graphs: multi-step
- Read bar graphs (2-step problems)
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Reading bar graphs
Interpret bar graphs to answer single-step questions about a context.
Reading bar graphs
Bar graphs show information by using bars to represent numbers.
The bar graph below shows the number of kids that chose each activity as their favorite thing to do on a hot day.
The Eat ice cream bar lines up with , which means kids chose eating ice cream as their favorite hot day activity.
Comparing with bar graphs
Bar graphs can also be used to make comparisons.
The bar graph below shows the number of kids that chose each activity as their favorite thing to do on a rainy day.
We can see that kids chose watching a movie the most because the Watch a movie bar is the tallest. But we can also compare different choices by looking at more than one bar.
Sometimes we will need to answer questions by comparing two bars.
More ways to look at bar graphs
The bar graph below shows the number of kids that chose each activity as their favorite thing to do on a snowy day.
Make a bar graph
The following table shows the number of kids that chose each activity as their favorite thing to do after school.
Activity | Number of kids |
---|---|
Play outside | |
Art | |
Sports | |
Computers |
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- Bar graphs might be like the 3rd easiest concept. Upvote if you agree.(12 votes)
- I wish there were so many todo!!(9 votes)
- what is 9 x n=81(7 votes)