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Picture and bar graphs: 2nd grade math

Picture graphs and bar graphs (up to 4 categories); line plots of measurements. A free 2nd grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: picture graphs and bar graphs (up to 4 categories); line plots of measurements.

Teach (10 min)

  • A line plot puts an X above a number for each thing measured.
  • Count the Xs above a number to see how many are that long.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/measure.lineplot2?lesson=2-measure-lineplot-1&at=2

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Picture and bar graphs (2nd grade)

  1. Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in inches. How many ribbons were measured in all?
    01234Length in inches
  2. Each X on the line plot is the length of one pencil in centimeters. How many pencils are exactly 5 centimeters long?
    012345Length in centimeters
  3. Each X on the line plot is the length of one twig in centimeters. How many twigs are exactly 2 centimeters long?
    123456Length in centimeters
  4. Each X on the line plot is the length of one leaf in inches. How many leaves were measured in all?
    345678Length in inches
  5. Each X on the line plot is the length of one twig in inches. How many twigs are 4 inches long or shorter?
    012345Length in inches
  6. Each X on the line plot is the length of one feather in inches. How many feathers are exactly 10 inches long?
    34567891011Length in inches
  7. Each X on the line plot is the length of one pencil in centimeters. How many pencils are 5 centimeters long or shorter?
    345678Length in centimeters
  8. Each X on the line plot is the length of one ribbon in centimeters. How many centimeters longer is the longest than the shortest?
    2345678910Length in centimeters
  9. These crayons were measured, in centimeters: 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8. On a line plot, each one gets an X. How many Xs go above the 2?
    12345678Length in centimeters
  10. Each X on the line plot is the length of one crayon in centimeters. How many crayons are longer than 3 centimeters?
    345678Length in centimeters
  11. Each X on the line plot is the length of one leaf in inches. How many leaves are longer than 0 inches?
    01234567Length in inches
  12. These twigs were measured, in centimeters: 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7. On a line plot, each one gets an X. How many Xs go above the 5?
    2345678910Length in centimeters
Key
  1. 8
  2. 2
  3. 1
  4. 8
  5. 6
  6. 1
  7. 4
  8. 7 centimeters
  9. 2
  10. 7
  11. 10
  12. 3

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