3rd Grade Interpreting Bar Graphs Worksheet: Favorite Music

Hip hop has the longest bar, which stops at 35 students, so it is clearly the most popular type of music. Slow and classical have the two shortest bars, at 5 students each. That is why the key gives two answers for question b. Rock reaches 15, and pop reaches 20. All the answers in the key are right.

Question b is a nice surprise, because many children expect only one answer and stop as soon as they find the first short bar. Also, the scale counts by fives, so your child must read the side carefully. Reading a graph like this is a third grade skill.

Lay a ruler flat on the top of each bar, then slide it to the side to read the number. This simple trick stops the eyes from slipping to the wrong line. Next, your child writes the number above each bar in pencil.

The text has a few slips to fix. The intro says "kinds of musics", but "kinds of music" is right. The graph title writes "charles'" without a capital letter. On page two, "two shortest bar of same length" should read "two shortest bars of the same length". The key also writes "15 number of students" for "15 students".

Ask each person at home for their favorite fruit. Then draw one bar per fruit on squared paper, with one square for each person who chose that fruit. Next, ask your child which fruit wins and which one loses. Finally, check the three answers with the answer key on page two.