You can find out information and spot trends by looking at charts and graphs:
| Bar Charts |
Pie Charts |
Line Graphs |
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| This bar chart shows that the most popular way of travelling to school is by car, and the least popular is by bicycle. |
This pie chart shows that about a third of the class have brown eyes. |
This line graph shows how the temperature gradually changes during each month of the year. |
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| Comparing Charts |
It is easy to compare proportions of things using pie charts.
Here, you can clearly see that Year 4 has the greater fraction of girls.
You can’t tell which class has more girls though, because you don’t know how many children are in each class.
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