Drawing Bar Charts

Objective: to be able to draw bar charts from frequency tables

Starter questions

Try to think of as many Copy and highlight: Exactly how tall are you?
questions as you can about
A bar chart MUST have:
Would this be a good
this table:
question if you wanted to
 A title make a bar chart? Explain
Favourite Number of
 Labels on axis
colour people your answer.
Blue 4  Numbers going up in
Green 7 equal steps on the y
Red 2 axis
White 6

Draw Bar charts for the following tables: Main questions

Favourite Pet Number of people Star question

Snake 5
Think of a question you’d like
Dog 7
to find out about, make a
Fish 10
Cat 4 frequency table then ask
Bird 3 people in your class the
question, create a bar chart of
this data.
Favourite Actor Number of people
Johnny Depp 4
Robert Pattison 17
Brad Pitt 20
Tom Cruise 9
George Clooney 24

Favourite Food Number of people

Chinese 20
Pizza 16
Mexican 18
Indian 14
Tapas 10
2. Swap books with the person next to you when they have finished and mark their
work, make sure you include positive feedback along with anything they may need
to work on.