A reflective recap on reading bar charts for Year 4 maths. Pupils answer quick checks, including a bar that stops halfway between 20 and 30, teach an alien how to read a bar's value, tick the trickiest part of the lesson, plan a chart of their own and shade a confidence bar. Marking guidance is included. Wraps up the England National Curriculum objective on presenting and interpreting data.
Statistics
“Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs.”
The sheet checks scale-reading, the usual sticking point, then asks pupils to plan their own chart.
Short questions like reading a bar that stops halfway between 20 and 30.
Pupils explain to an alien how to work out what a bar shows.
Pupils tick the hardest part of the lesson and say why.
Planning a chart of their own, like cats versus dogs.
Pupils shade a bar to show how confident they now feel.
Plenary
Close a bar charts lesson with the quick check and confidence bar.
Assessment check
The halfway-bar question catches pupils who only read gridline values.
Planning tomorrow
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