Activities

1. Use the data in the bar graph to create a table.

2. Angela conducted a survey asking her friends what their favorite fruit was.  Use her results below to make a pictograph.

3. Make a table that has the number of people in each age group.  What age group has the most people in it?

4. Create a table about students’ favorite juice flavors.  What is the difference between the most popular juice and the least popular juice?

5. Create a bar graph using the data in the pictograph about the amount of ice cream being sold during one week.  How many ice creams were sold during the week?  Explain how you found your answer.
   
   

6. Create a table and a bar graph for the number of cupcakes sold during one week.   Explain how you found the number that was sold each day.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Table similar to:

2. Graph similar to:

3. Age group 20 – 29 has the most people.

Table similar to:

4. The difference between most liked juice and the least liked juice is 10 – 2 = 8 students.

Table similar to:

5. The total number of ice creams sold during the week is 106. 

       Acceptable explanations may include, but are not limited to:

• Find the number of whole ice cream cones and multiply it by 4 because each one stands for 4 ice creams sold:  25 x 4 = 100
• Count the number of half ice cream cones and multiply that by 2 because each one stands for 2 ice creams sold:  3 x 2 = 6
• Add the two together:  100 + 6 = 106

Bar graph similar to:

6. Table and graph similar to:

Acceptable explanations may include, but are not limited to:

• Look at the key to see the value of one cupcake in the pictograph
• Count how many cupcakes are next to each day
• Multiply the number of cupcakes by the value shown in the key
• Find half of the value when the picture is cut in half by dividing by 2
• You can use repeated addition to find the total amount