Functional Skills MathsYears 10–13Functional Skills Maths Level 1

Reading bar charts and pictograms

Functional Skills Maths Level 1: Reading bar charts and pictograms

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    A bar chart uses coloured bars to show how many of each thing there are. The taller the bar, the more there are!

  2. 2

    What does the height of a bar tell you?

  3. 3

    Look at this bar chart about fruit in a basket. How many oranges are there?

  4. 4

    Let's read a pictogram together. Each picture stands for 2 pets.

  5. 5

    If 🐱 = 2 pets and there are 3 cat symbols, how many cats?

  6. 6

    Now read this pictogram. Each 🐟 stands for 5 fish. How many fish are there?

  7. 7

    A bar chart shows 10 apples and 6 bananas. How many more apples than bananas?

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