Key Features of Graphs
Check titles, scales, labels and units before interpreting a graph. Choose supported, standard, or challenge practice with a worked example, printable visual, and explained answers.
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Check titles, scales, labels and units before interpreting a graph.
Grade 5 review and application of earlier data skills. Use the stated units and scales. These activities do not claim to cover an entire Grade 5 standard.
Supported practice
Example: A title tells what the data describes. A vertical-axis label tells what the numbers count.
1. What does this graph count?
2. What is the size of one scale interval?
3. Which label tells the categories?
4. Which lunch should have the tallest bar?
Supported answers
1. Students choosing each school lunch.
2. 5 students.
3. The horizontal axis: Soup, Pasta and Rice.
4. Pasta, with 15 students.
Standard practice
Example: A bar at 10 means ten students only because the vertical axis specifies Number of students.
1. How many students were surveyed if each chose one lunch?
2. Why should the bar scale start at zero for this comparison?
3. A version labels the vertical axis Number of lunches sold. Is that justified?
4. What would be unclear if the title only said Survey?
Standard answers
1. 30 students: 5 + 15 + 10.
2. A zero baseline lets bar lengths represent counts proportionally.
3. No. The data records lunch preferences, not sales.
4. We would not know the survey question or context. A title about favorite school lunch is more informative.
Challenge practice
Example: Accurate values can still be presented misleadingly if a graph changes its scale or labels.
1. Someone says Pasta is three times as popular as Soup. Does the data support that among these respondents?
2. If a bar chart starts at 5, Soup has no visible height. Why is that misleading?
3. What information would you add before comparing this survey with last year’s?
4. Does the graph prove Pasta tastes better?
Challenge answers
1. Yes: 15 is three times 5. This refers only to the surveyed group.
2. Soup still has 5 votes. The truncated baseline makes bar lengths fail to represent the full counts.
3. The survey dates, group sizes and question/choice wording, so we can judge whether the groups and categories are comparable.
4. No. It records preferences, not an objective measure of taste or a reason for the choices.
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