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Year 6 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.In a pictograph, one symbol stands for 10 cars. How many symbols are needed to show 70 cars?

  2. 2.On a bar graph each square of the scale stands for 4 children. A bar is 6 squares tall. How many children does that bar stand for?

  3. 3.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

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

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

  6. 6.A bar graph shows 12 red counters and 5 yellow counters. How many more red counters are there than yellow?

  7. 7.A library counted the books borrowed each day. Draw a bar for every day in the table.

    Draw a bar for every row of the table.

    Monday30
    Tuesday15
    Wednesday40
    Thursday25
    Each line up the side is worth 5.0510152025303540MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursday

  8. 8.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.

    • Wednesday
    • Tuesday
    • Monday
    • Thursday

Answer key — Year 6 Maths — Pictographs and bar graphs

  1. 1. 7
  2. 2. 24
  3. 3. 1 — Monday
  4. 4. 35
  5. 5. 40
  6. 6. 7
  7. 7. Monday 30, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 40, Thursday 25
  8. 8. 1. Tuesday 2. Monday 3. Thursday 4. Wednesday