A column graph is a graph used to display data about different groups. There are all different types of groups that can be looked at. For example the number of different types of bugs in a garden, the number of people with certain eye colours in a class or even the flavours of juice people prefer.
Let's look now at how to create and interpret (understand) column graphs.
Let's say I looked in my garden and I found $6$6 ants, $5$5 worms, $3$3 caterpillars, $1$1 butterfly and $4$4 bees. Watch this video to see how we'd turn this into a column graph.
So what information can we get from a column graph? Let's watch another video and see.
The table below shows the house points earned by four colour houses at their swimming carnival.
House | Points |
---|---|
Blue | $60$60 |
Green | $20$20 |
Yellow | $70$70 |
Orange | $60$60 |
Complete the graph using the information from the table.
The fish shop has $5$5 tanks.
The graph below shows the number of fish in the $5$5 tanks.
Turn this information into a scaled bar graph.
A dice is rolled and the number of times it landed on the digits 1-6 is recorded in the table below.
Dice Number | Number of Rolls |
---|---|
1 | $6$6 |
2 | $4$4 |
3 | $1$1 |
4 | $8$8 |
5 | $5$5 |
6 | $7$7 |
Complete the graph using the information from the table.
What was the most frequent dice roll?
3
6
4
5
1
2
How many more 4's were rolled than 2's?
What was the least frequent dice roll?
3
1
5
2
6
4