In a picture graph each thing has its own row of pictures.
Count the pictures in a row, then you know how many there are.
Matching pictures stand neatly side by side, so you can count them well.
Example:
🧦🧦🧦 are 3 socks.
👕👕👕👕👕 are 5 shirts.
The numbers next to the rows show the answer.
Example
What does this exercise practice?
The picture graph practices careful counting and reading off quantities from a display. Children learn to take in data in an orderly way, before tables and number graphs come later.
Common pitfalls
Children miscount when they count without a system. It helps to touch each picture once with a finger and count out loud, one row after the other.
How to practice at home
Lay things out in rows at home, for example forks, spoons, and knives. Ask each other: Which is there the most of? Which the least? That is how comparing quantities is practiced.
Related: Tally chart, Pictogram