Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Tally and Bar Charts
Lots of good materials for teaching about tally marks and bar graphs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Bar Graphs and Solve 1 Step Problems
Interpret bar graphs to answer questions about a context. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Solve Problems With Bar Graphs 1
Read and interpret bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Bar Graphs
This smart note book explains reading bar graphs, the parts of a bar graph, the steps to produce a bar graph and allows classes to input data a produce some bar graphs.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading Bar Graphs
Explains what bar graphs are, their uses, and presents practice problems for creating a bar graph and answering questions about them. Problems are accompanied by detailed solutions.
Other
Nearpod: Reading Picture & Bar Graphs
In this lesson on picture graphs and bar graphs, 2nd graders learn key vocabulary, draw the graphs, and compare the graphs.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Bar Graph
Find a quick, concise explanation of a bar graph. An example is given.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Pet Graph
On this one-page website, sharpen your logic and graph reading skills by figuring out which pet goes with each bar on the graph. The solution is available to double check your own solution.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ice Cream Bar Graph
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews bar graphs, how to create them and read them. Excellent activity to get your students involved in a tasty math activity!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Picture Graphs
Use picture graphs to solve word problems. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar...
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Reading Charts and Graphs
Practice graph reading skills with these exercises and companion tutorials.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Bar Graphs
Two bar graph examples are shown and explained at this website. You can learn what kind of data is best represented using a bar graph.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: A Hairy Situation
Help Max make a bar graph to show the hair colors of his classmates. Teachers will appreciate the activities with bar graphs in the extra challenges. Use the teacher's guide to create a fun and engaging lesson.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Read Histograms
Practice reading and interpreting histograms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Tea Store: Reading a Table
Students will demonstrate how to interpret information in a table.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Charts
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Dinosaurs: Data and Chance
Students can play learning games to explore how to label, read, and create graphs using a dinosaur theme.
Curated OER
University of Texas: India: Religions
On this fascinating map of India from the Perry Castaneda Collection, you can read bar graphs that show the percentage of religions practiced in each state and union territory of India.
Other
Basket Math Interactive
Explore more than twenty math concepts such a perimeter, rounding, exponents, decimals, sign numbers, and more using this interactive basketball game. A Spanish version is also offered. Students results are tabulated daily.