Looking for a way to encourage counting skills and initiate the understandings of creating graphs at the same time? As you lay the foundations for using bar graphs, are you after an alternative to picture graphs? Then this is the resource for you!

Search and Find

Most students love search and find activities. Foster your budding data analysts with this appealing search and find worksheet and its matching blank graphing sheet.

Students count the number of items specified and then use small manipulatives (such as counters, buttons, etc) as markers. They place their markers on the graphing template in the correct boxes thus creating a data display with concrete objects. Once students know their information is correct, they colour each square where they have placed a manipulative.

Easily Prepare This Resource for Your Students

To turn this teaching resource into a math centre or sustainable activity, print a few graphing sheets on thick card and slip them into dry-erase sleeves. Students can colour in the squares with a dry-erase marker, then erase and reuse.

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