Pictograms and tally charts

For grown-ups: this lesson in words

Year 2 · Maths

Pictograms and tally charts: I can read tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams.

1. Here is our fruit. 7 apples.

   5 bananas.

   3 pears. Each kind of fruit is a group.

   Picture: Apples: 7 apples, Bananas: 5 bananas and Pears: 3 pears.

2. A tally chart: one mark for each fruit.

   Apples: a gate of 5, then 2 more. 7!

   Bananas: 1 gate, so 5. Pears: 3 marks.

   Picture: A tally chart called "Our fruit". 🍎 Apples: 7; 🍌 Bananas: 5; 🍐 Pears: 3.

3. Your turn: This tally chart shows cars we saw. How many red cars?

   Picture: A tally chart called "Cars we saw". 🔴 Red: 1 gate of five and 1 single mark; 🔵 Blue: 4 single marks; 🟢 Green: 2 single marks.

   Choose one:

   • 5
   • 6
   • 7

   Answer

   The answer: 6

   A gate of 5 and 1 more mark. 6 red cars.

   Picture: A tally chart called "Cars we saw". 🔴 Red: 6; 🔵 Blue: 4; 🟢 Green: 2.

Words to know

tally chart:

Marks to count things. 4 marks and 1 across make a gate of 5.

pictogram:

A chart that uses pictures to show how many.

key:

It tells you how many one picture stands for.

block diagram:

Towers of blocks, with one block for each thing.

table:

Rows with a name and a number in each row.

altogether:

All of them added together.