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Graphing Worksheets: Tally Charts, Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs

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Data pages for 1st grade: tally marks, read and make tally charts, picture graphs and bar graphs with three groups, answer questions, and take a class survey.

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Tally marks and tally charts

Picture graphs

Bar graphs

Make your own graph

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these graphing worksheets

First graders sort data into up to three groups, show it in a chart or graph, and answer questions about it: how many in each group, how many in all, and how many more or fewer one group has than another.

The pages start with tally marks in groups of five, then move through the three kinds of graphs children meet first. They read a tally chart, then count pictures to make one. They read a picture graph, then build one from a tally chart. They read bar graphs going up and going across, then color in their own. Each graph has a short set of questions with the same five kinds of question every time, so children learn what to look for.

Every graph uses three groups with different totals, so there is always one clear most and one clear fewest. The pictures are simple line art: fruit, pets, bugs, weather, toys and ways to get to school. "Take a Class Survey" lets children ask their own question and graph the answers.

Standards

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

How to use them

  1. Practice tally marks first: four lines, then a fifth line across. Counting tallies by 5s is a quick way to check.
  2. When making a tally chart from pictures, have your child cross out each picture lightly as they count it so none are counted twice.
  3. On bar graphs, run a finger from the top of each bar across to the numbers to read it.
  4. For "how many more" questions, find both numbers and count up from the smaller to the bigger.
  5. Use the class survey with real questions: favorite fruit, pets, how we get to school.

Teaching tips

  • If a fifth tally gets drawn as another straight line, point out that a group of five should look like a gate.
  • Children sometimes read a bar by counting squares and miss one. Reading the number at the top of the bar is faster and surer.
  • "How many more" is a compare question. Lining up two rows of pictures shows the extra ones plainly.
  • A picture graph needs the same size boxes for every picture, or the rows can't be compared.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What graphs do 1st graders learn?

Tally charts, picture graphs and bar graphs with up to three groups. Children make them and answer questions about how many in each group, how many in all, and how many more or fewer.

How do tally marks work?

Each mark is one. After four marks, the fifth goes across them to make a group of five, so big counts are easy to read by 5s.

What is the difference between a picture graph and a bar graph?

A picture graph shows one picture for each thing counted. A bar graph shows each group as a bar, and the number at the top of the bar tells how many.

Do the graphing worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. Every page with right answers has an answer key on page 2, with the finished graph and every answer. The class survey uses your own data, so it has no key.