Picture Graphs
Creating a Picture Graph
In Jack’s marble collection, there are blue, green, yellow and red marbles.
Jack groups his marbles by colour.
He counts the number of marbles in each group.
I can use this data to
make a picture graph!
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We can use a picture graph to show the data about Jack’s marble collection.
My marbles
Blue
Each
Red
Yellow
Green
stands for 1 marble.
What can we say about the data in the picture graph?
1 Jack has 6 blue marbles, 3 red marbles, 4 yellow marbles and 2 green marbles.
2 Jack has 15 marbles altogether.
3 Jack has 3 more blue marbles than red marbles.
4 Jack has 2 fewer green marbles than yellow marbles.
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