3rd grade · Math · Unit 13 of 13

Scaled Graphs

Each picture stands for more than 1

What your child practices

Reading picture graphs and bar graphs where each picture or step stands for 2, 5 or 10, answering how many more and how many in all, and choosing questions a survey can answer.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 3.DR.A.1; 3.DR.B.2 · asking questions that data can answer and reading scaled picture graphs and bar graphs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

Read the key: one picture can stand for 2, 5 or 10.
Multiply the pictures by the key.
Subtract to compare two rows.

Example: Each 🌷 stands for 5. Spring has 4 🌷. How many chose spring? 4 × 5 = 20. Answer: 20

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

Question 1
On a picture graph, each picture stands for 5. How many pictures show 40?
- 40
- 5
- 8
- 11
Question 2
How many more for Room 4 than for Room 3?
Books read this month
Room 1
📕
Room 2
📗📗📗
Room 3
📘📘
Room 4
📙📙📙📙📙
Each picture = 5
- 15
- 25
- 10
- 3
- 30
Question 3
Which question could you answer with a class survey and a bar graph?
- What time does the sun set today?
- What is our class's favorite sport?
- What is 6 × 7?
- How far is it to the moon?
Question 4
How many for baseball?
Favorite sport
- 110
- 60
- 80
- 70
- 8
Question 5
How many in all?
Animals seen on a hike
- 48
- 21
- 38
- 42
- 36
Question 6
Which question could you answer with a class survey and a bar graph?
- What is my best friend's name?
- Which pet is most popular in our class?
- How far is it to the moon?
- What is 6 × 7?

What your child practices

How we explain it

Sample questions

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