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1st grade · Math · Unit 14 of 16

Picture Graphs

Ask, count and compare

What your child practices

Reading picture graphs with three groups: how many in each, how many more, how many in all, and which question a class survey can answer.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.8(B); 1.8(C) · drawing conclusions and answering questions with picture and bar-type graphs

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Count each row of the graph.
  2. Find the most and the fewest.
  3. Subtract to find how many more.

Example: 5 chose 🐶 and 3 chose 🐱. How many more chose 🐶? 5 − 3 = 2. Answer: 2

Picture Graphs in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 14 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Data & Graphs and before Coin Values.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

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

  1. Question 1

    Sort them: fly or swim?

    Sort into: 🪽 Flies · 🌊 Swims

    • 🐳whale
    • 🐟fish
    • 🐦bird
    • 🦋butterfly
    • 🐬dolphin

  2. Question 2

    Which has the most?

    How we get to school

    walk
    🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶
    bus
    🚌
    bike
    🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲

    Each picture = 1

    • 🚶walk
    • 🚲bike
    • 🚌bus

  3. Question 3

    Which question can we answer by asking our class?

    • What is the name of the tallest tree on Earth?
    • How many fish are in the ocean?
    • What will the weather be next year?
    • How many of us walk to school?

  4. Question 4

    Which has the fewest?

    Our favorite weather

    snowy
    ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
    rainy
    🌧️
    sunny
    ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

    Each picture = 1

    • ☀️sunny
    • ❄️snowy
    • 🌧️rainy

  5. Question 5

    How many answers are there in all?

    Our pets

    cat
    🐱
    bird
    🐦🐦🐦🐦
    dog
    🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

    Each picture = 1

    • 13
    • 10
    • 11
    • 8

  6. Question 6

    How many chose bird?

    Our pets

    bird
    🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
    dog
    🐶🐶🐶
    cat
    🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

    Each picture = 1

    • 6
    • 5
    • 3
    • 4

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