Reading Bar Charts

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One illustrated lesson, each teaching the why before the how.

Reading Bar Charts #

Follow the top of a bar across to the scale.

Read the top of a bar against the scale and you have its count

This chart counts votes for each color. The numbers up the side are the scale.

Follow the top of the blue bar across to the scale. It lands on 6: six votes.

Blue reaches 6 and green reaches 4: blue is 2 ahead, and together they make 10.

A scale can climb in twos: blue tops the fifth line, and five twos are 10.

Now you

How many votes for blue and red together?

How many more votes for red than blue?