Graph interpretation resources

Students redraw, and re-order, the numbers in a back-to-back stem-and-leaf graph and then answer questions about the new graph.

Students answer questions about a line graph showing scores in a cricket game. An understanding of slope is needed.

Students answer questions about a bar graph which shows the price of petrol broken into 'tax' and 'other charges' in seven countries.

This task requires students to answer questions about a time-series graph for two categories of data over an eight year period.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph of Social Studies marks for 4 classes. They answer questions interpreting the data, and comparing, range and best performance.

This task requires students to interpret and answer questions about a line graph showing Gross Domestic Product.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph and answer questions on median, quartile and outliers.

Students construct a composite dot plot of girls' and boys' shots at a basketball hoop. They identify the mode and range, and make statements about the results.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph of staff salaries, and answer questions interpreting the data.

Students interpret a line graph showing how high a skyrocket travelled over time.

Students interpret and answer questions about a dot plot showing how easy or hard some school work was.

Students interpret and answer questions about a line graph about a hungry tiger.

Students answer questions by interpreting a line graph of a snail's progress as it climbed up a wall.

Students interpret a line graph about how students felt during their swimming sports.

Students interpret a line graph showing the running speed of different animals.

Students interpret a graph of a bike trip to answer questions about time and distance.

Students interpret a graph of a journey to school and answer questions about the time taken for different parts of the journey.

Task: Transfer information from a table to a graph, label the bottom axis and describe the pattern of the data. Assessment focus: graph construction; graph interpretation.

Three key variables related to high altitude flight are displayed graphically. Students use the information provided to answer a series of questions about flight.

Students use provided data on the time of day and the length of the shadow to construct a line graph. Students interpret their graph to answer three questions.

This resource requires students to construct a graph on data for temperature and depth below the Earth's crust. Students then answer four questions about this.

For this task students are provided with three pie graphs on water. Students are required to interpret these to answer four short answer questions.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Students are provided with a graph of lizard numbers on an island. They answer three questions about this graph.

Students complete a table based on an algebraic formula for free fall velocity, plot the results, and interpret the graph.