Grade 3

Mathematics
Chapter 13 - Smart Charts

Classwork

● Data ​means information.

● Frequency ​means the number of times a particular data occurs.
● Frequency table ​is used to represent the data as a table.

Tally marks:
Using tally marks is another way of representing the given information.
A tally mark is a straight line, where:

=1 ; =2 ; = 3 and =4

The fifth tally mark is a slanting line which crosses so, = 5

1. Riya gathered information about the favourite story of each child in her building.
She then represented the information as tally marks.

Favourite stories
Story Number of Children

Cinderella

Sleeping Beauty

Red Riding Hood

Amar Chitra Katha

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Answer the following questions from the data given above.

1) How many children like both Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty? ​15

2) Which story was liked by eight children? ​ Amar Chitra Katha

3) Which story was liked by seven children? ​Cinderella

4) How many storybooks are mentioned above? ​4

Pictographs:
When we use pictures or symbols to represent a given information, we call it a
pictograph or pictogram. A pictograph represents pictures as numbers.

2. Use the pictograph given below to answer the questions that follow.

​Favourite food items

Sandwich

Chapathi

Idli

Dosa

Poori

Cereal - mix

Key : = 10 children

Answer the questions given below with the data mentioned above.
1) How many children like sandwiches?
​Ans : 60 children like sandwiches.
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2) How many children like poori?

Ans : 80 children like poori.
3) Which food items are liked by 30 children?
Ans: Idli is liked by 30 children.
4) How many food items are there in all?
Ans: 6 food items are there in all.
5) Which food item is liked by more children - idli or dosa? How many more
children like it ?
Ans: Dosa is liked by more children, 10 more children like dosa than idli.
Chart:
Chart is where information is represented using symbols.

3. Represent the data given below about the number of vehicles that passed by
Deepak’s house each day as a chart.
Types of vehicles Number of vehicles passing by in a day

Truck 3

Bus 2

Bicycle 4

Motorbike 8

Car 5

Chart:
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Now, reading the above chart we can answer the following questions.
1) How many types of vehicles are mentioned?
Ans: There are 5 types of vehicles mentioned.

2) Which vehicles pass by Deepak’s house the most?

Ans: Motorbike passes by Deepak’s house the most number of times.

3) Which vehicles pass by Deepak’s house the least?

Ans: Bus passes by Deepak’s house the least number of times.

4) What is the difference between the number of cars and trucks which pass by Deepak’s
house?
Ans: Number of cars = 5
Number of trucks = 3
Difference between number of cars and trucks = 5 - 3
=2

5) How many bicycles pass by Deepak’s house each day?

Ans: ​ ​4 bicycles pass by Deepak’s house everyday.

6) Find out the total number of vehicles passing by Deepak’s house in a day
Ans: A total of 22 vehicles pass by Deepak’s house in a day.