Pie charts and bar charts

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Imagine you have a bag of 20 sweets 🍬 in 4 different colours. A bar chart shows each colour as a tower of blocks.

2. 2

   Which chart uses slices of a circle?

3. 3

   Look at this bar chart — how many red sweets are there?

4. 4

   Let's read a pie chart together. This pie chart shows the same sweets.

5. 5

   If the whole pie is 20 sweets, and the red slice is half, how many red sweets are there?

6. 6

   Now you try! This bar chart shows 30 children's favourite ice cream flavours. How many chose chocolate?

7. 7

   Which chart is better for showing parts of a whole (like 'half the class chose chocolate')?