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Drawing A Pie Chart
Drawing A Pie Chart
Success Criteria
• I know which calculations will give me the correct angles for each of my
sectors.
• I can use a protractor to construct the angles required by my pie chart.
Pie charts are a great way to show
the comparative sizes of a set of data
and now you can draw them yourself
by following these steps!
1. Collect or identify your data
Imagine you have collected the following data about the eye colour of 60 people
and you want to turn it into a pie chart:
Datum: One piece of information, in this case the eye colour of one person.
3. Convert the data to degrees
Eye Colour Number of People
Divide 360 by the total size of your
Green 22
sample to calculate how many
Blue 13 degrees each datum (the eye colour
Brown 17 of each person) is equal to.
Other 8
Total 60 360 ÷ 60 = 6˚ per person.
e.g. Chart to show how the total population of the United Kingdom (63 200 000) is
divided between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
360 ÷ 63 200 000 = 0.0000057 degrees per person!
Vegetarian
Hawaiian
How many children chose Hawaiian?
Roast
Chicken
360 ÷ 200 = 1.8 degrees per child.
Success Criteria
• I know which calculations will give me the correct angles for each of my
sectors.
• I can use a protractor to construct the angles required by my pie chart.