Teacher Notes
Take your own survey in class. Copy the tally marks
into the table to get the count. Use the information you
have gathered to create some graphs on the next slides.
You could use a smart board or project the presentation
onto a whiteboard so the children to write their own
tally marks into the table.
Use the graph slides to construct your graphs. Copy
the blocks to represent the different survey answers.
You can edit the scale as you wish. You could use a
smart board or project onto a white board so the
children can draw in their own pictures for the
pictograms.
Making Scaled
Pictograms
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9
Favourite Fruit
8

7
Here is a bar chart
6 showing the favourite
fruit for a class of
5 children.

4 The scale counts

up in 1’s.
3

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Banana Grapes Apples Pears
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9
Favourite Fruit
8

6
Here is the same
pictogram with 1
5
picture representing 2
children’s choices.
4

0
Banana Grapes Apples Pears
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Favourite Fruit
8

6 Here is the same

pictogram with
the number scale
changed to only show the
4 even numbers.

0
Banana Grapes Apples Pears
 Favourite Fruit
Take your own survey in your class. Add the tally marks to make a total for each fruit.

Favourite Fruit Tally

Bananas

Grapes

Apples

Pears
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9
Favourite Fruit
8
Use your tally to create
your own pictogram.
7
Use the image blocks to
represent one tally mark.
6

0
Banana Grapes Apples Pears
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9
Favourite Fruit
Use your tally to create
8 your own pictogram.
Use the image blocks to
7 represent one tally mark.

0
Banana Grapes Apples Pears
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9
Favourite Fruit
Use your tally to create your own
scaled pictogram.
8
Use the image blocks to represent
two tally marks and the half blocks
7
to represent odd numbers.
6

0
Banana Grapes Apples Pears
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9
Favourite Colour
8

Here is a pictogram
6
showing children’s
favourite colours.
5

Each circle represents

4
1 child’s choice.
3

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Red Blue Green Yellow Pink
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9
Favourite Colour
8

7
Here is the same
6 pictogram with 1 circle
representing 2
5 children’s choices.

4 If there is an odd
number, we use half a
3 circle to mean 1 child.

0
Red Blue Green Yellow Pink
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Favourite Colour
8

6
Here is the same
pictogram with the
number scale changed
4
to only show the
even numbers.

0
Red Blue Green Yellow Pink
 Favourite Colour
Take your own survey in your class. Add the tally marks to make a total for each colour.

Favourite Colour Tally

Red

Blue

Green

Yellow

Pink
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9
Favourite Colour
8 Use your tally to create your
own pictogram.
7
Use the circles to represent one
6 tally mark.

0
Red Blue Green Yellow Pink
10
Favourite Colour
Use your tally to create your
8 own scaled pictogram.

Use the image blocks to

represent two tally marks.
6
Use the half colours to show
odd numbers.

0
Red Blue Green Yellow Pink
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9
Class Pets
8

6 Here is a pictogram
showing children’s pets.
5
Each picture
4 represents 1 pet.

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Dog Cat Fish Rabbit Hamster
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9
Class Pets
8

7
Here is the same
6 pictogram with 1
picture representing
5 2 pets.

4 For odd numbers we

can use half a picture
3 to mean 1 pet.

0
Dog Cat Fish Rabbit Hamster
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Class Pets
8

6
Here is the same
pictogram with the
number scale changed
4
to only show the
even numbers.

0
Dog Cat Fish Rabbit Hamster
 Class Pets
Take your own survey in your class. Add the tally marks to make a total for each pet.

Pets Tally

Dog

Cat

Fish

Rabbit

Hamster
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9
Class Pets
8 Use your tally to create your own
pictogram.
7
Use the image blocks to represent
6 one tally mark.

0
Dog Cat Fish Rabbit Hamster
10
Class Pets
Use your tally to create your
8 own scaled pictogram.
Use the image blocks to
represent two tally marks.
Use the halves to show odd
6
numbers.

0
Dog Cat Fish Rabbit Hamster