Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs

2nd Grade MathMeasurement and Data4 pages

About this worksheet

Reading one graph and building another splits this 2nd grade data worksheet in half, matching both verbs in Common Core 2.MD.10. Part 1 is a picture graph of Room 2B's favorite classroom pets where each paw print equals one vote (5 dogs, 4 cats, 3 fish, 2 birds); students count symbols to answer put-together and compare questions, including the 14-vote total. Part 2 hands over a fruit-vote table (4 apples, 6 bananas, 3 oranges, 5 grapes) and a labeled six-row grid, and students color the bars up from the baseline before answering three questions from their own graph.

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Curriculum objectives covered

2.MD.10

Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.

Part 1 solves compare problems from a given graph; Part 2 has students draw the single-unit bar graph the standard asks for, then use it.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1: Read the Picture Graph

A four-row paw print graph with a printed key. Three questions: the cat votes, dogs over birds, and the all-class total.

Part 2: Make and Use a Bar Graph

The fruit table becomes a colored bar graph on a 1-to-6 scale, then three questions run off the finished bars, such as how many fewer votes orange got than banana.

Answer key

Expected shading per column plus every numeric answer with its equation.

How teachers use it

Baseline rule

Draw one wrong bar floating mid-grid before students color. Starting at the bottom line is the entire skill in Part 2.

Key before counting

Cover the paw print key and ask what one symbol is worth. Nobody answers Part 1 until someone says it.

Vote your own class

Re-run the fruit vote with your actual students and graph the results on the board beside the worksheet's data.

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