Pie charts

Every pie chart has…

• A title

• A key

• Sectors

These follow….
Title Drinking preferences of
Numeracy students

Tea
Coffee
Neither
Drinking preferences of
Numeracy students

Tea
Coffee
Neither

A key
 Drinking preferences of
Numeracy students

Tea
Coffee
Neither
Sectors
Numbers of people who follow pie
charts in Dave's class

People who
understand pie
charts
People who don’t
understand pie
charts
How well do Dave's students
understand pie charts?

People who
understand pie
charts
People who don’t
understand pie
charts
People who can't
be bothered with
charts
Student understanding of pie charts

Understand pie
charts
Don’t understand
pie charts
Can't be
bothered
Missing from
session
Constructing a chart
 HOW?
• divide a circle into 360 degrees

• Match the number of days in a year very

closely
 Working out the angles…
• Let’s imagine we do a survey of 12 people
to find out whether they prefer tea, coffee,
or some other drink

• Let’s say there is 1 who prefers tea, 8

coffee and 3 some other drink…
 Working it out….
• Then 1 in 12 prefer tea

• 8 out of 12 prefer coffee

• 3 out of 12 prefer “other” drinks

 Changing the English to Maths

• 1 in 12 for tea = 1/12

• 8 out of 12 for coffee = 8/12

• 3 out of 12 for “other” = 3/12

 Calculating the angles

• Tea
1 teasector
out of=12
1/12 x 360

• Coffee
8 coffee= out
8/12ofx12
360

• “Other”
3 “other”=out
3/12ofx12
360
 Do the Maths….for tea

• 1 x 360
12
You can put any number over 1 - this
doesn’t change its value, and lets you
multiply it as a fraction

• 1 x 360
12 1
 Sector size for tea
• 1 x 360
x = 360360
12 1
• 360 divided by 12 = 30

• So the sector for tea will be 30 degrees wide

 Do the Maths….for coffee

• 8 x 360
12
You can put any number over 1 - this
doesn’t change its value, and lets you
multiply it as a fraction

• 8 x 360
12 1
 Sector size for coffee
• 8 x 360 • Reduce 8/12 to its
12 1 lowest terms – 2/3

• 2 x 360 • Either do 360 x 2 and

3 1 divide by 3

• Or divide the 360 first

by 3 then double it

• = 240 degrees
• Some people always work out the basic
sector first and then multiply up from that

• We know 1/12 prefer tea = 30 degrees

• Coffee is 8/12 – so that will be 8 x 30!

• Now let’s see the “other” category

 Sector size for “other”
• 3/12 prefer “other”

• We know 1/12 = 30 degrees

• So 3/12 will be 90 degrees (90°)

• Also, 3/12 = ¼ , and a quarter of a circle is

90°
Looks like this…
Who likes what to drink?

Tea
Coffee
Other