Activity: Skill:

1. 2. 3.

Build A Bear Graph Sorting and Graphing

Get a blank graphing page and one handful of colorful counting bears. Sort your bears by color. Now create a real graph by placing each bear in the correct column or row on your graph. Remember: a Vertical Graph will have columns of same color bears. A Horizontal Graph will have rows of same color bears. Next, remove one bear at a time and color the squares on your graph to match the colors of the bears. Answer the questions about your graph. Now arrange the same handful of bears on the other graph. Again, color this graph to show how many bears of each color you have. Answer the questions about this graph. Compare your graphs to see how they are alike or different. Make sure your graph has your name on it before you hand it in.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Materials:
Plastic counting bears Build A Bear graphing page for both Vertical and Horizontal graphing (choose either the page with both graphs on one page or copy both graph separately) Pencil/crayons

Copyright 2009, T. Palmieri

Name _____________________

Build A Bear Graph

6 5 4 3 2 1
Red Blue Orange Yellow Green Purple

Which color has the most? ___________ Which has the fewest? ___________ Write a number sentence to compare red and blue bears. ____ - ____ = ____ Do any colors have the same amount? ____ Which ones? ________________
Purple

Green

Yellow

Orange

Blue

Red

Horizontal Graph

Copyright 2009, T. Palmieri

Name _____________________

Build A Bear Graph

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Red Blue Orange Yellow Green Purple

Which color has the most? ___________ Which has the fewest? ___________ Write a number sentence to compare red and blue bears. ____ - ____ = ____ Do any colors have the same amount? ____ Which ones? ________________
Copyright 2009, T. Palmieri

Red

Blue

Name _____________________

Orange

Yellow

Green

Purple
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Build A Bear Graph

Copyright 2009, T. Palmieri

Horizontal Graph

Which color has the most? ___________ Which has the fewest? ___________ Write a number sentence to compare red and blue bears. ____ - ____ = ____ Do any colors have the same amount? ____ Which ones? ________________