Use graph data in multi-step problems

2nd Grade Math practice: A bar graph shows 18 votes for cats and 14 votes for dogs. Then 6 more votes are added to dogs. How many votes are there altogether now. Part of year-end synthesis (Year-End Synthesis).

~10 min

Students use values from a graph or table as numbers in a multi-step problem.

Read a bar graph

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A bar graph shows numbers with bars. Read the label, then look at how tall the bar is to find the value.

💡 Point to the bar and say the number out loud before you solve anything.