For students who selected incorrect graphs, ask them to explain the reason for their selection.

 

For students who had difficulty interpreting the graphs, or who selected incorrect graphs, further exposure to bar graphs may be needed as well as modelling of how to 'read' the bars.  Part of this is about learning which parts of the graph to pay attention to, e.g., understanding that to work out how many people prefer the colour blue, they need to look at the top of the blue bar and 'read' across to the number on the y-axis.

 

For students who were able to complete the task,  have them make their own statements about the graphs in this resource, or other simple bar graphs.

 

Students could also construct their own bar graphs (about favourite colours, ice cream flavours, pets, etc.) and make statements about their graphs.   Initially these could be for one group of students, then graphs from two (or more) different groups (based on classes, hubs, houses or gender) could be created and used to match statements to graphs, e.g., "Students in this room like chocolate ice cream the most." or "No one in this group likes rabbits for pets."

 

The NZMaths resource, Match ups, takes students through a process from creating a class pictograph to selecting the graph that best shows a statement.