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Contents

Extract Information from a List HD1/E3.1 Pages 2 - 3

Extract Information from a Table HD1/E3.1 Pages 4 - 6

Extract Information from a Diagram HD1/E3.1 Pages 7 - 8

Extract Information from a Pie Chart HD1/E3.1 Page 9

Extract Information from a Tally Chart HD1/E3.1 Pages 10 - 11

Titles, Labels and Keys HD1/E3.1 Pages 12 - 14

Extract Information from a Bar Chart HD1/E3.2 Pages 15 - 16

Comparing Bar Charts HD1/E3.2 Pages 17 - 18

Extract Information from a Pictogram HD1/E3.2 Page 19

Comparing Pictograms HD1/E3.2 Page 20

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Information Extract Information from a List

A list is the most basic way of presenting information and is used for showing very limited
data.

Examples

Here is a list of the sugar content per 100 grams (g) in different foods.

WHITE BREAD 5G
Chocolate bar 50 g
Cornflakes 9g
Ice cream 22 g
Natural yogurt 8g
Tomato soup 5g
Jam 55 g
Tomato ketchup 15 g
Ready meal 2g

This simple list has only one piece of data listed per item.

For example, to find out how much sugar was in a chocolate bar, simply read down the list
to chocolate bar and get the information required.

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Exercise 1 Extract Information from a List

This is a list of the calories in different types of fruit.

Look at the heading to find how much of each type of fruit equals the number of
calories given.

1) Which fruit has the most

Type of fruit (per 100 g) calories calories, an apple or a pear?

Apple 47
Banana 95
Blackberries 20
Blueberries 60
2) List the fruits which have 50
Cherries 51
calories.
Grapes 50
Kiwi Fruit 49
a)
Melon 24
Nectarine 42
b)
Orange 35
Peach 35
Pear 55
Pineapple, slice 50 3) List the fruits which have 35
Plums 35 calories.
Raisins 300
Raspberries 110
Strawberries 27 a)

b)

c)

4) One kiwi fruit has ………..

calories.

5) 100 g of raisins have ………..

calories.

6) 100 g of cherries have ………..

calories.

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Information Extract Information from a Table

A table is a simple way to show data. It is made up of rows and columns.

To find the data required, simply find the squares in the table that contain the relevant
data.

Examples

Example 1

A table to show the number of visitors in one week to various free attractions in Barrow
town centre.

Days Central War Green’s Art

Library Museum Park Gallery
Monday 25 48 112 31
Tuesday 18 21 134 11
Wednesday 42 32 121 17
Thursday 12 27 119 9
Friday 39 47 187 28
TOTALS 136 175 673 96

How many people visited the War Museum on Tuesday?

Find the data square containing “War Museum” along the top of the table. Move down this
column until the square in line with Tuesday is found. This gives a square with the number
of people visiting, which in this case is 21.

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Examples Extract Information from a Table

Example 2
A bus timetable is a common type of table from which information can be taken.

Depot 6:05 7:35 8:05 8:35 9:05 10:05

Main Street 6:10 7:40 8:10 8:40 9:10 10:10
Bunny Lane 6:17 7:47 8:17 8:47 9:17 10:17
Front Street 6:24 7:54 8:24 8:54 9:24 10:24
High Street 6:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:30
Market Place 6:36 8:06 8:36 9:06 9:36 10:36

Find the starting point down the left hand side, then move across until you find the correct
time.

e.g. You need to catch a bus on Main Street after 8:30. What time will the next bus go?

Find Main Street, then move along the row until you find the first time that is just
after 8:30. 8:40 is the first bus to leave Main Street after 8:30, so that is the answer.

Exercise 2

Using the bus timetable from above, answer the questions below.

1) You go to the bus depot to catch the bus. You just miss the 8:05 bus.
What time will the next bus go?

2) You catch the 7:47 bus from the Bunny Lane. What time should you get
to Market Place?

3) If you catch the 8:10 bus from Main Street , what time would you get to
High Street?

4) If you catch the 7:54 bus from Front Street, what time would you get to
Market Place?

5) You work at Market Place and have to get there at 8:30. What time
should you catch the bus from Main Street?

6) You have a bus pass which you can use after 9:30. What is the first bus
you can catch from Bunny Lane?

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Exercise 3 Extract Information from a Table

Planting and Harvesting times for carrots

Sown Planted Sown Harvested
inside out outside
January *
February * *
March * * *
April * *
May * *
June * *
July *
August *
September *
October *
November
December *

This table shows when carrots can be sown inside in a greenhouse, when they can be
planted out, when they can be sown outside and when they can be harvested or picked.

Read the table carefully and circle the correct answers:

1) In September carrots can be: Sown inside/planted out/sown outside/harvested

2) In January carrots can be: Sown inside/planted out/sown outside/harvested

3) In July carrots can be: Sown inside/planted out/sown outside/harvested

4) Carrots can be sown inside in: September/October/November/December

5) Carrots can be harvested in: October/November/December/January

6) Carrots can be sown outside in: December/January/February/March

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Information Extract Information from a Diagram

A diagram is used to display information visually. It is easier to extract information using a

diagram than write a lot of words.

Examples

A weather forecast shows what the weather is going to be like and the different
temperatures in various areas. It is easier to find a specific temperature from the diagram
than trying to read through a lot of written data.

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Exercise 4 Extract Information from a Diagram

Here is a map of the town where Connie lives.

Connie lives on Church Street. She decides to take her children to the park before they
go to the cinema.

1) They walk along Church Street and turn right onto Lake Road. What do they pass
immediately before they reach the park?

After a while in the park, Connie decides it is time to go to the cinema.

2) What street is the cinema on?

3) On their way home from the cinema they stop at the bakery. What street is the
bakery on?

4) When they come out of the bakery to go home to Church Street, do they turn left or
right?
Left / Right

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Information Extract Information from a Pie Chart

A pie chart is a chart in the shape of a pie or circle. It shows how something is divided into
segments. Each segment represents a fraction of the total amount.

Examples

A class of 20 children were asked to pick a colour from

this list – blue, red, green and yellow. This pie chart
shows their choices.

The pie chart clearly shows that half the children picked
the colour red and that blue was the second most
popular colour.

Exercise 5
The pie chart below shows what Alison spends her wages on each week.

1) On what does Alison spend most of her wages?

2) How much does Alison spend on food each week?

3) If Alison earns £200 a week, how much does she spend on going out?

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Information Extract Information from a Tally Chart

A tally is a way of recording data and is simple to use.

It is used to count data. For example, counting the number of red cars driving past the
college.

The first red car counted is recorded as a line, like this: I

When the 2nd red car is counted, another line is drawn: II

3rd car : III

4th car : IIII

When the 5th car is counted, a tally gate like this is made : IIII
For every 5th car we therefore create a gate.

This method counts in 5s.

So, if 22 red cars were counted in total, the data would look like this:

IIII IIII IIII IIII II

Examples

Example 1

34 birds were counted on a nature walk. The tally chart looks like this:

IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII

Example 2

People in a maths class were asked for their shoe sizes. Here are the results:

Size 5 IIII =4
Size 6 IIII =5
Size 7 I =1
Size 8 =0
Size 9 IIII II =7
Size 10 III =3

Data is easy to compare when using tally charts.

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Exercise 6 Extract Information from a Tally Chart

Harry decides to ask his work colleagues where they went on holiday. Here is the data he
collected.

Destination Tally Number

Spain IIII
England IIII IIII IIII
France III
Greece I
Didn’t go on holiday II

1) Complete the table by putting the total number of each tally in the number column.

2) How many people went on holiday to Greece?

3) What is the most popular destination?

4) How many people went to Spain?

5) How many people did Harry ask altogether?

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Information Titles, Labels and Keys

When representing data in different ways, there are certain things that each format must
contain.

 Tally charts and tables must have a main title to show what the table/chart is
about.

 Pictograms must also have a main title and a key to show what each picture
represents.

 Bar charts must include a title of the chart, labels on both axes and sometimes a
key is also required.

 Titles, labels and keys allow the data to be read correctly, so that it is clear what the
different data relates to.

Examples

Example 1
Here is a table showing the number of staff needed in a nursery in the morning and
afternoon. A suitable title for this table could be:

Number of Staff Required Daily

Time of day Number of Number of

children staff needed
Titles
am 21 7

pm 15 5

This tally chart shows the number of different ice creams sold from an ice-cream van. A
suitable title could be:

Ice Creams Sold

Ice cream Tally Total

flavour
Vanilla IIII IIII IIII III 18
Chocolate IIII IIII 10
Mint choc IIII IIII II 12
Strawberry IIII IIII III 13

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Examples Titles, Labels and Keys

Example 2
This pictogram shows the number of children in a class who received stars for their work
during one week.
Key
Title
= 2 children
Mon

Tues
Key
Wed

Thurs

Fri

A key is used to explain how a picture/colour/shortened word represents an amount of

data shown in a chart.

A key is very important in pictograms as it shows what each picture represents. In this
example, 1 face represents 2 children. Therefore half a face must represent 1 child.

Example 3 Titles, Labels and Keys

A bar chart must contain a title and labels for each axis. Sometimes it is appropriate to use
a key too.

Here is a bar chart showing the number of serious crimes in different parts of Catlow over
the last four years.

Serious crimes in Catlow 2006-2009

Title East West North Key

100
Number of
serious 50
crimes
0
2006 2007 2008 2009
Labels Year

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Exercise 7 Titles, Labels and Keys

Alisha asks 25 car owners what colour of car they own. The answers have been put into a
block graph.

10

0
Red Blue White Grey Green

1) There should be two labels, one for each axis of the graph, and a title.
Write the following two labels and the title in the correct places on the above
graph.

Colour of car Number of people A block graph showing the colours of

twenty five people’s cars

2) Complete the following using the above graph.

people have red

a)
cars.
people have grey
b)
cars.

c) Four people have cars.

d) Seven people have cars.

e) Two people have cars.

Can you see how important the title, labels and key are in helping you to understand the
information?

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Information Extracting Information from a Bar Chart

A bar chart is a visual way of showing data. Bar charts make it easy to read and compare
data.

To read a bar chart, look along the horizontal axis to find the bar showing the required
data. Then, look at the top of the relevant bar, and reading across to the vertical axis, read
the number that lines up with the top of the bar. This is the information required.

Example

Electricity bills for 1 year

100
80
Amount of 60
money (£s) 40
20
0
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
Yearly quarter

How much was spent in the 4th quarter?

Read off the top of the bar in the 4th quarter against the values on the vertical scale. The
answer is 20.

Therefore the bill for the 4th quarter was £20.

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Exercise 8 Extracting Information from a Bar Chart

Rowan asks 100 people what their favourite fruit is. Each person was asked to choose
from the following list:

Apple
Pear
Banana
Melon
Orange

A bar chart was made from the results.

A bar chart to show favourite fruits

40

35

30
Number of people

25

20

15

10

0
Apple Pear Banana Melon Orange

Types of fruit

1) How many people like bananas best?

2) How many people like oranges best?

3) Which fruit do 25 people like best?

4) Which fruit is liked the least?

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Exercise 9 Comparing Bar Charts

Ian delivers vegetables to the local school. To help Ian deliver the correct amount, the
school record how many vegetables are used daily. Here is the data for Tuesday, shown
in two different ways.

Tuesday's vegetables
Broccoli
Vegetables

Onions

Potatoes

Carrots

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Amount in kg

Tuesday's vegetables
14
12
10
Amount in kg

8
6
4
2
0
Carrots Potatoes Onions Broccoli
Vegetables

1) What weight of potatoes were used?

2) What weight of carrots were used?

3) Do both of these charts show the same information?

Yes / No

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Exercise 10 Comparing Bar Charts

A café sells a variety of sandwiches. The charts below show how many of each type were
sold in one day.

Number of sandwiches sold

40
35
Chart A 30
Number sold

25
20
15
10
5
0
Cheese and Egg Tuna BLT Ham salad
tomato
Type of sandwich

Chart B

1) Looking at Chart A, how many cheese and tomato sandwiches were sold?

2) Does Chart B show the same amount?

3) How many ham salad sandwiches were sold in Chart B?

4) Which chart is easier to read the information from?

Chart A / Chart B

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Information Extracting Information from a Pictogram

A pictogram is a visual way of displaying information. Pictures are used instead of

numbers. Each picture represents an amount and this is called a key. Each picture must
be identical in size and parts of the picture can be used for smaller amounts.

Example

Each ball represents 2 football matches.

Therefore half a football represents 1 football match.

The Year 6 football team played the following matches in one month.

Therefore the Year 6 team played a total of 6 matches in one month.

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Exercise 11 Comparing Pictograms

Sylvia and Sylvester are going to Sunnyville for the weekend. They both check weather
charts to see how sunny it is going to be.

This is the table Sylvia checks which shows the number of hours of sunshine over a
weekend.

This is the table Sylvester checks.

1) Using Sylvia’s chart, how many hours did the sun shine from Friday to Monday?

2) Using Sylvester’s chart, what was the total number of hours of sun shine from
Friday to Monday?

3) Do both these charts show the same information?

Yes / No

4) What is the difference between these two charts?

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