Bar Graphs Mrs. Turner for Mrs. Skelton
Vocabulary
bar graph
Graphs are used to show data. Data is information collected.
Favorite Fruits This is a bar graph. What kind of data is shown here?
Let’s talk about what we notice about the bar graph.
How many children like oranges best? Bananas? Apples? Kiwis?
What do you see now?
Sports Students Play
How many students were asked?
How many more students like lacrosse more than baseball? 3
Which sports have the same amount of students playing? Football and lacrosse
Which sport is played least? baseball
CONCLUSION How are graphs helpful? We can see the information being compared quickly by just looking. What things would work with bar graphs? Anything we want to compare. We can compare many different things.
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