Interpreting Histograms

Get “hooked” on decoding data with this fun histogram worksheet! Students in the sixth grade take their histogram skills a step further by interpreting information from a real-life scenario. Through studying a histogram report of the number of hours spent crocheting, students will answer a set of questions designed to spark critical thinking.

By helping students understand visual data sets, this immersive worksheet builds the essential statistical foundation needed for seventh- and eighth-grade math. Mastering these displays of numerical data in histograms prepares students for more advanced inferences and probability models in later grades.

Ready to interpret more histograms? Check out Describing Distributions in Histograms. For students to build their own histograms from given data, try Create Histograms From Data Sets.