Basic 4Mathematics20 min

Pictograph Market Survey

Displaying favourite fruit survey results with basket symbols.

Use the graph key before counting symbols.

A class survey uses one basket picture to stand for 2 learners. Read the graph before answering questions.

Pictograph Market Survey illustration

Displaying favourite fruit survey results with basket symbols.

Mango has 6 basket symbols. The key says 1 basket = 2 learners.

  1. Do not count 6 learners. Each symbol is worth 2 learners.
  2. Multiply 6 symbols by 2 learners each. Mango has 12 learners.

Struggle support

Rescue lab

Survey baskets before totals

Learners vote for favourite fruits, but the wall chart uses one basket drawing to stand for two learners.

Draw a key first, then draw basket symbols beside each fruit.

Concrete

Pair learners into groups of two before drawing one basket for each pair.

Two learners become one picture symbol on the graph.

Visual

Read the key, then count the basket symbols in the row.

6 baskets with a key of 2 means six groups of two.

Symbol

Multiply symbols by the key value before comparing totals.

6 x 2 = 12 learners chose mango.

Counting each picture as one learner when the key says two.

Ask what one basket stands for before counting the row.

Convert every symbol with the key, then write the total.

Comparing rows before converting with the key.

Ask whether both rows use the same symbol value.

Use the key first, then compare the learner totals.

Point to the key and say its value aloud before answering any graph question.