Mascot Election (Pictographs and Bar Graphs)

A brand new school is opening and it is time to elect the school mascot! Students can choose the Eagle, Lion, Bear, or Wolf. Voting results can be displayed in a table, tally chart, pictograph, bar graph, circle graph, or dot plot. You can change student votes by selecting a group of students and clicking a mascot.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Read and interpret data in frequency tables, tally charts, pictographs, and bar graphs.
  • State the relationship between pictographs and bar graphs.
  • Choose an appropriate scale to display data on a pictograph and bar graph.
VOCABULARY:
  • bar graph, frequency, frequency table, horizontal axis, pictograph, scale, tally chart

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