The Results Are In:

Interpreting Data

Type of Food Tally Total

Lemonade

Watermelon

Popsicles

Grand Total:

What food is the most common? What food is the least common?
How many more popsicles than watermelon are there?
Table of Contents
The Results Are In: Interpreting Data
The BBQ
Fruit Survey
Picnic Bar Graph
Favorite BBQ Food
Favorite Picnic Spots
Cold Drinks
Hiking Bar Graph
Jake's Nature Hike
Hiking Buddies Graph
Pick a Flower Pictograph
Lemonade Stand
Summer Hobbies
BBQ Food
Pool Toys
In the Band Diagram
A Slice of the Fair
Coming Up with Questions
Pictograph Questions
Venn Diagram Questions
Pie Chart Questions

Certificate of Completion
 The BBQ
Look at the pictures from Katy’s barbecue. Count and record the
numbers of each kind of food in the tally chart on the next page.
Then answer the questions below.
 The BBQ Tally Sheet

Type of Food Tally Total

Lemonade 2
Hot dogs

Apples

Watermelon

Popsicles

Grand
Total:

What food is the most common?

What food is the least common?

How many more popsicles than apples are there?

 Fruit Survey
Survey your friends and family about their favorite fruit.
Then record it in the chart, and answer the questions below.

Favorite Types of Fruit

Name
(can be more than one)

What is the most common fruit that people liked?

How many types of fruits did people like in total?

What is the least common fruit that people liked?

 Fruit Tally Sheet
Tally of People Number of
Type of Fruit
Favored People Favored

Grand
Total:
 Picnic Bar Graph
Read the bar graph to learn which picnic games were the most popular.
Then answer the questions below. Show your work when possible.

12
11
10
9
Number of People

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Frisbee Tag Races Horseshoes Tug-o-war

Types of Picnic Games

1. How many people love races?

2. How many more people chose tug-o-war than frisbee?

3. Add the number of people who love horseshoes and the number of people who love
races. What’s the difference between that total and the number of people who love tag?

4. How many more people would it take to make frisbee the most loved picnic activity?

5. List the activities in order from most favorite to least favorite.

 Favorite BBQ Food
Based on the information given, ill out the chart.
Then complete the graph and answer the questions.

A group of students were asked BBQ Food Students

what their favorite barbecue foods are:
Chicken 8
Chicken
Potato Salad
Potato Salad
Ribs
Ribs
Burgers
Burgers

9
8
Number of Students

7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Chicken Potato Salad Ribs Burgers

Barbecue Foods

Mode is the term for the most common response in a set of data.
What is the most popular barbecue food? The food that has the highest
number of responses is the mode.

Which BBQ food is the least popular?

 Favorite Picnic Spots
Based on the information given, ill out the chart.
Then complete the graph and answer the questions.

A group of students were asked Picnic Spots Students

what their favorite picnic spots are:
Park 7
Park
Backyard
Backyard
Beach
Beach
Forest
Forest

9
8
Number of Students

7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Park Backyard Beach Forest

Picnic Spots

Mode is the term for the most common response in a set of data.
What is the most popular picnic spot? The spot that people picked the
most is the mode.

Which picnic spot is the least popular?

 Cold Drinks
You poll your classmates about their favorite cold beverages.
Now ill in the bar graph using the information below.

7
Number of Students

Grape Juice

Cold Beverages

1. Seven students like apple juice. Find that bar and label it “Apple Juice.”

2. Nine students like lemonade. Find that bar and label it “Lemonade.”

3. Three students like iced tea. Find that bar and label it “Iced Tea.”

4. Color the most popular drink red.

5. Color the least popular drink blue.

 Hiking Bar Graph
Read the sentences below and complete the bar graph by drawing bars.
Then answer the questions.

7
Number of Students

Forest River Beach Hills

Hiking Locations

1. Color the mode red.

Number of students
that like to hike:
2. Which hiking location is the most popular?
In Forests – 5
Near Rivers – 3
3. Which hiking location is the least popular?
At the Beach – 8
In the Hills – 7
4. What is the difference in votes between
hiking in the hills and hiking near rivers?
 Jake’s Nature Hike
Jake went on a nature hike. He saw deer, turkeys, hummingbirds, lizards, and geese.
Help Jake make a bar graph of the animals he saw!

Deer Turkeys Hummingbirds Lizards Geese

3 4 2 11 8
Directions:
1) Title your graph!
2) Label the parts of your graph.
3) Figure out a scale to it the number of animals Jake saw.
4) Graph the information.

______________________________________
______________________________________

_________ _________ _________ _________ _________

 Hiking Buddies Graph
Eric, Carol, Manny and Sue all like to go hiking.
This pictograph shows how many hikes they went on this month.

Eric
Carol
Manny
Sue

= one hike
1) Who went on the most hikes?

2) Compare Eric and Carol. How many more hikes did Eric go on?

3) How many hikes did Sue take?

4) How many fewer hikes did Manny go on than Sue?

5) Who hiked the least?

6) How many hikes did they take in total?

 Pick a Flower Pictograph
Stefanie is helping her mom plant lowers in the garden. Find out how many lowers Stefanie
planted in the past few days by reading the pictograph below. Then answer the questions.
Remember: each lower in the pictograph stands for 2 lowers.

Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday

= 2 lowers

1. What does this symbol represent?

2. How many lowers did Stefanie plant on Wednesday?

3. On which day did Stefanie plant the fewest lowers? How many did she
plant that day?

4. On which day did Stefanie plant the most lowers? How many more did she
plant on that day than on Sunday?

5. Draw symbols to represent 5 lowers.

 Lemonade Stand
Susie set up a lemonade stand in her front yard. These two pictographs compare
how many cups of lemonade Susie sold in two weeks. Read the pictographs and
answer the questions below.

Week 1 Cups of Lemonade Week 2 Cups of Lemonade

Day 1 Day 1

Day 2 Day 2

Day 3 Day 3

1. What does this symbol represent?

= 2 cups

2. How many cups of lemonade did Susie sell in the irst week?

3. How many cups of lemonade did Susie sell in the second week?

4. How many more or fewer cups of lemonade did Susie sell in week
one than in week two? Draw lemonade symbols to show the difference
below. Remember, one symbol equals two cups of lemonade.
 Summer Hobbies
Read the Venn diagram below and answer the questions. The diagram shows three
favorite summertime hobbies. Each dot represents one person.

Camping Swimming

Biking

1. How many people love only camping?

2. How many people love only swimming?

3. How many people love to only bike and swim?

4. How many people love only camping and swimming?

5. How many people love all three hobbies?

 BBQ Food
Read the Venn diagram below and answer the questions.
Each dot represents one person’s response for their favorite barbecue food.

Hot dogs Hamburgers

Chicken

1. How many people said chicken is their favorite barbecue food?

2. How many people like just hamburgers?

3. How many people love hot dogs and hamburgers only?

4. How many people love chicken and hot dogs only?

5. How many people love all three foods?

 Pool Toys
Look at the pool toys next to the Venn diagram. Cut them out and glue or tape
them in the correct space in the Venn diagram. See the examples below.

Toys with Dots Toys with Stars

Toys with
Dots and Stars
 In the Band Diagram
Each picture respresents an instrument. How many children in the band play each
instrument? Color one slice for each instrument, using the colors below.

BLUE GREEN

PURPLE

1. How many kids play guitar?

2. How many kids play drums?

3. How many more kids sing than

play drums?

4. Each member plays only one instrument.

How many kids are in the band?
 A Slice of the Fair
Mike and his friends went to the fair, and they all picked out balloons.
How many different colors of balloons do you see?
Color one slice for each balloon, using the colors below.

1. How many kids picked red balloons?

2. How many kids picked yellow?

3. How many more kids picked orange

balloons than purple balloons?

4. How many kids got balloons?

 Coming Up with Questions
Glenn wanted to know what his friends’ favorite lavors of ice cream are,
so he surveyed his friends and made a graph of his indings. Look at the bar
graph, and come up with three questions about the graph to ask a friend or
family member. Write them in the spaces below.

9
8
Number of Students

7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Chocolate Vanilla Cookies and Strawberry

Cream
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor

Example: Which flavor of ice cream is the most popular?

 Pictograph Questions
Emily likes to ride her bike, so she decided to make a graph of how much
she rides her bike over the course of a week. Look at the pictograph she
made, and come up with three questions about the graph to ask a friend
or family member. Write them in the spaces below.

Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday

= 10 minutes of bike riding

Example: What day did Emily ride her bike the least?
 Venn Diagram Questions
Jordan made a graph of his friends’ responses about whether they like the ocean, the lake,
or the river better. Look at the Venn diagram, and come up with three questions about the
graph to ask a friend or family member. Write them in the spaces below.

River Lake

Ocean

Example: How many of Jordan’s friends like only the ocean?

 Pie Chart Questions
Sue went to the local pool to survey what kind of pool toys are most popular.
Look at the pie graph, and come up with three questions about the graph to ask
a friend or family member. Write them in the spaces below.

Noodle

Doughnut

Board

Example: Which pool toy was the most common?

Great job!