Graphs and Data Teaching Resources
Teach graphing this school year with printable worksheets, fun graphing activities and games, task cards and more teacher-created resources for primary school maths!
This collection of editable teacher-created resources is aligned with the Australian curriculum. It has been carefully reviewed by the expert teachers on the Teach Starter team to ensure every single digital or printable resource is ready to use in the classroom. That means you can save hours on lesson planning with activities ready to print or use digitally!
Are you looking to learn more about teaching students to use graphs, or just on the hunt for fresh ideas and activities to engage your students? Read on for a primer from our teacher team, including a look graphing on this level and some key vocabulary!
What Is Graphing? A Kid-Friendly Definition
Graphing starts in the early years in many schools around Australia with simple pictographs. But how do you explain what graphing is to the youngest students? This kid-friendly definition may help.
Graphing is a way to show information using pictures and symbols. It's sort of like drawing a picture that helps you understand numbers and facts.
For example, we could use graphs to show how many kids in our class like different colours or how many toys in the toy bin are cars.
Graphing Vocabulary for Primary Teachers
Looking for a guide to some of the graphing vocabulary your students will encounter — and you will have to define? Here's a comprehensive look, along with some simple definitions!
- Data —Information that is collected and analysed
- Axis — The horizontal and vertical lines that make up a graph.
- X-axis — The horizontal axis on a graph
- Y-axis — The vertical axis on a graph
- Bar — A rectangular shape we use to represent data on a bar graph
- Scale — The units used to measure data on a graph
- Pictogram/pictograph — A graph that uses pictures to represent data
- Legend/key — A chart that explains the symbols used on a graph (students may recognise this from their map skills lessons)
- Line of best fit — A straight line on a graph that represents the overall trend in a set of data
- Line plot — A graph that shows the frequency of data values on a number line
- Tally — A mark used to represent data on a tally chart
- Pie chart — A graph that shows the proportion of each data value to the whole, represented as a circle that looks like a pie
- Line graph — A graph that shows the relationship between two variables using a line
- Data point — An individual value on a graph
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Baking Dot Plot Analysis Teaching Slides
Explore the sweet side of graphs and data with this bakery-themed dot plot resource, supporting your students' abilities to interpret dot plots!
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Dot Plot Bakery Interactive Activity
Strengthen dot plot skills with this bakery-themed interactive activity, designed to help students practise creating and analysing dot graphs in a fun, structured way.
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Data Collection Worksheet Set
Use this set of differentiated graphs worksheets to assess your students’ understanding of how data is collected, organised and presented.
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Mean Median and Mode Task Cards
Use this set of 24 data interpretation task cards to teach students to find the mean, median and mode of a limited data set.
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Interpreting Graphs Task Cards
Use this set of task cards students to practise interpreting column graphs, histograms and line plots.
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Interpreting Line Graphs Grade 5 Worksheet Set
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Pictographs - Interactive Activity
Use this fun and engaging interactive activity to aid students. in practicing their pictograph interpretation skills.
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Data Match-Up Cards (Set 2)
A match-up activity for students to use when exploring data.
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Data Representation and Interpretation Worksheets - Year 5
8 data representation and interpretation worksheets linked to the Australian Curriculum.
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Data Match-Up Cards (Set 3)
A match-up activity for students to use when exploring data.
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Interpreting Line Graphs Interactive Resource
Use this digital activity to teach students about interpreting real-life data represented as a line graph showing how measurements change over a period of time.
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Interpreting Line Graphs Task Cards
Engage your Grade 5 learners with this task card set focused on interpreting line graphs.
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Analysing Dot Plots Task Cards
Strengthen data analysis skills by interpreting dot plots with this set of 24 task cards.
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Analysing Line Plots – Differentiated Worksheets
Empower your students to become proficient data interpreters with this set of differentiated line plot worksheets.
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Reading Pictographs - Worksheets
Use this double-sided worksheet to enable students to practise reading and interpreting pictographs.
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Creating Pictographs Worksheet
Use this engaging worksheet to practice creating and reading pictographs.
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Pictograph and Bar Graph Match-Up (Single-Unit Intervals)
Use data analysis skills to match frequency tables with a corresponding bar graph or pictograph.
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Analysing Graphs (Scaled Intervals) Board Game
Use this board game to sharpen data analysis skills when solving problems with information presented in a scaled picture or column graph.
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Picture Graph Playoff – Maths Game
A fun picture graph game for students to consolidate gathering and representing data.
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Count and Graph – At the Beach
A beach-themed hands-on activity to introduce graphing skills.
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Data Maths Investigation - Should I Buy It?
A mathematics investigation involving data collection and representation, embedded in a real-world context.
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Cloud Graphing Activity
A worksheet to use when graphing cloud observations.
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Line Plot Project: Bakery Menu Design
Make learning about maths as sweet as your students' favourite treats with this project based learning line plots exercise!
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Creating Line Plots Differentiated Cut and Paste Worksheet
Guide students to create line plots with this differentiated cut and paste worksheet.
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Differentiated Line Plot Worksheet
Guide your students to represent data with this differentiated line plot worksheet.
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Goal Labels - Data Representation and Interpretation (Lower Primary)
Eleven Data Representation and Interpretation Goal Labels for lower primary.
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Histograms Worksheet
Encourage your students to practise reading and creating histogram graphs using this double-sided worksheet with answer key included.
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Understanding Pictographs - Task Cards
Use this set of task cards to practise reading and interpreting pictographs and bar graphs
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Pictograph Cut and Paste Worksheet
Use this fun cut-and-paste worksheet to consolidate student understanding of pictographs, and encourage them to practise their fine motor skills.
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Create a Pictograph - Small Group Activity
Introduce the concept of a pictograph, and teach students how to create simple pictographs based on data from in a word problems.
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Count and Graph – The Picnic
A picnic-themed hands-on activity to introduce graphing skills.
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Dotted Journal Paper
Sheets of square dot paper templates.