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Great Graphing Worksheets

Three bar graphs — classroom pet votes, favorite shirt color, and breakfast food — each come with six questions asking students to read totals, compare categories, and find differences, with a matching answer key.
Grades
Grades 1–5, Elementary
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Updated Jul 28, 2021

Subject
Math, Geometry
Topic
Graphing
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These Great printables/worksheets/worksheets-by-subject/math-worksheets/graphing-worksheets">Graphing Worksheets are a fantastic way for students to analyze bar graphs and understand the information being presented. They are perfect for teachers who want to give their students a head start in math and data analysis.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Read individual category totals from a bar graph

  • Identify the categories with the greatest and least values on a bar graph

  • Calculate the numerical difference between two bar-graph categories

Teaching tips

  • Use the three graphs on separate days as short warm-ups, since each repeats the identical six-question routine and can be completed quickly once students know the pattern.

  • Have students check their own totals against the answer key page before moving to the difference and comparison questions, so early counting errors don't carry through the rest of the page.

Skills covered

  • Bar-graph reading — students read exact vote/response totals for each category across three different graphs.

  • Comparative data analysis — students identify the highest and lowest categories and calculate the numerical difference between two categories.

  • Self-checking practice — an included answer key lets students verify totals and comparisons independently.

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Do the three graphs cover the same topic or different survey topics?

Different topics: a classroom-pet vote, a favorite-shirt-color survey, and a breakfast-food survey, each formatted as its own bar graph with the same six-question set.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Bar graphs

  • Data comparison

  • Greatest and least value

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