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Year 4 Maths — Pictographs and bar graphs

Record data with tallies, read pictographs and bar graphs where one unit stands for many, and answer questions from them.

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Before you start

Every line across this graph is worth 5 books. Look at how far up each bar reaches and work out what it is worth.

1234
  1. 1. Monday — 30 books
  2. 2. Tuesday — 15 books
  3. 3. Wednesday — 40 books
  4. 4. Thursday — 25 books

Count the lines, not the bars. Monday reaches six lines up and each line is worth 5 books, which is why it is 30 and not 6 — that is the whole job a scale does.

Move the bars up and down, and watch the number each one stands for.

Each line up the side is worth 5.0510152025303540MondayTuesdayWednesday

One line up is not one book. Every line you cross is worth 5, so a bar that grows by one line grows by five — that is the scale doing its job.

  1. 1.This bar chart shows how many apples a stall sold on four days. Tap the bar for the day it sold the fewest.

    Write the number of the part.

    1234

  2. 2.In a pictograph, one symbol stands for 10 cars. How many symbols are needed to show 70 cars?

  3. 3.A shop sold 14 pens on Monday, 9 on Tuesday, 21 on Wednesday and 17 on Thursday. Put the days in order, fewest pens first.

    • Monday
    • Tuesday
    • Thursday
    • Wednesday

  4. 4.Two of these bars are drawn already. Read how tall they are, then draw the other two.

    Some bars are drawn for you. Draw the rest.

    Cricket40
    Football30
    Hockey20
    Tennis50
    Each line up the side is worth 10.0102030405060CricketFootballHockeyTennis

  5. 5.In a pictograph, one symbol stands for 5 books. How many books do 7 symbols stand for?

  6. 6.Draw a pictograph of the cars counted in a car park. One symbol is not one car — check the key.

    Draw the symbols for every row of the table.

    Red40
    Blue20
    White60
    Each symbol stands for 20.RedBlueWhite

  7. 7.A bar graph shows 12 red, 8 blue, 15 green and 5 yellow counters. How many counters are there altogether?

  8. 8.A shop sold 14 pens on Monday, 9 on Tuesday, 21 on Wednesday and 17 on Thursday. Sort each day by whether it sold fewer or more than 15 pens.

    Groups: Fewer than 15 pens · More than 15 pens

    • Thursday
    • Tuesday
    • Monday
    • Wednesday

Answer key — Year 4 Maths — Pictographs and bar graphs

  1. 1. 1 — Monday
  2. 2. 7
  3. 3. 1. Tuesday 2. Monday 3. Thursday 4. Wednesday
  4. 4. Cricket 40 (given), Football 30, Hockey 20 (given), Tennis 50
  5. 5. 35
  6. 6. Red 2 symbols, Blue 1 symbol, White 3 symbols
  7. 7. 40
  8. 8. Monday → Fewer than 15 pens; Tuesday → Fewer than 15 pens; Wednesday → More than 15 pens; Thursday → More than 15 pens