Here is a tally chart of our class's favourite school lunch. Tallies are marks, not pictures. Today we turn them into a pictogram, where each picture stands for one pupil. If one apple picture means one pupil, how many apple pictures will the most popular lunch need?

Look at this pictogram. Each picture stands for exactly one pupil, so a longer row means more pupils chose it.

1. How many pupils chose Sandwich? Count the pictures.
2. Which row is the longest? What does that tell you?
3. Nobody chose Salad. Why does the Salad row still need its label?
4. Run your finger along the start of each row. Why must every row start at the same line?

Let's build a pictogram from our own class data. One picture means one pupil.

1. Take a vote. Our question: What would you most like to do at yard time? Tag, skipping or football? Hands up for each, and count the hands.
2. Build it. Add one picture for each pupil who voted, one row at a time, starting every row at the same line.
3. Check it. Count the pictures in each row and match it to the number of hands.