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Bar Graphs for Kids: How to Read a Bar Graph (Grade 3 Math)

🎓 Grade 3 ➗ Math ⏱️ 2 min 11 sec Age 8

Learn to read bar graphs with Luna from DoodleBeez. Check the labels and the scale, read the height of each bar, find the most and least, and answer how many more and how many altogether. Common Core 3.MD.B.3.

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Hi, I'm Luna from DoodleBeez. Today we are reading bar graphs. A bar graph uses bars of different heights to show information, so we can compare things in one quick look.

A class voted for their favorite fruit. Here is the graph. Along the bottom are the fruits. Up the side is the scale, counting the votes. This scale counts by twos: zero, two, four, six, eight.

Now the bars. To read a bar, look at its top and slide across to the scale. Apples reach six, so six children chose apples. Bananas reach four. Grapes reach eight. Oranges stop at three, halfway between two and four.

Which fruit is the most popular? Find the tallest bar. It is grapes, with eight votes. Which is the least popular? Find the shortest bar. It is oranges, with three votes. Bar graphs make this easy to spot.

Graphs also help us compare. How many more children chose grapes than bananas? Grapes have eight votes, and bananas have four. Eight take away four is four. So four more children chose grapes.

Now it's your turn. How many children voted altogether? Pause and try. Add every bar: six plus four plus eight plus three. Six plus four is ten, ten plus eight is eighteen, and three more makes twenty one children.

Great job! Remember, read the labels, check the scale, and slide across from the top of each bar. The tallest bar shows the most, and the shortest shows the least. Practice bar graphs in the Math Lab at doodlebeez.com. See you next time!

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