Dot plots and histograms
Grade 6 Math Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer, or write your answer on the line.
Students rounded the minutes they read last night to the nearest 5, and Jun made a dot plot. How many students are in the data set?
A class took a spelling quiz with 15 words, and Kira counted the words each student spelled right ("necessary" is a sneaky word). How many students are in the data set?
Dot plot: spelling words right out of 15. Number line from 10 to 15, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 10: ●; 11: ● ●; 12: ● ● ● ● ●; 13: ● ● ● ●; 14: ● ● ●; 15: ● ●. The number of dots in each stack is written under it: 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2. Dot plot: spelling words right out of 15. Number line from 10 to 15, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 10: ●; 11: ● ●; 12: ● ● ● ● ●; 13: ● ● ● ●; 14: ● ● ●; 15: ● ●. The number of dots in each stack is written under it: 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2. 1 2 3 4 5 Each dot is one student. A garden club measured bean pods to the nearest centimeter, and Milo wrote the lengths on a dot plot. How many pods are in the data set?
Dot plot: bean pod lengths in centimeters. Number line from 6 to 11, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one pod. Dots above each tick: 6: ● ●; 7: ● ● ● ●; 8: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 9: ● ● ●; 10: none; 11: ● ●. Dot plot: bean pod lengths in centimeters. Number line from 6 to 11, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one pod. Dots above each tick: 6: ● ●; 7: ● ● ● ●; 8: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 9: ● ● ●; 10: none; 11: ● ●. bean pod lengths in centimeters 6 7 8 9 10 11 centimeters Students counted the pencils in their pencil cases (one case was very jangly), and Noah made the dot plot. Which number of pencils is the most common?
Dot plot: pencils in a pencil case. Number line from 2 to 8, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 2: ●; 3: ● ● ●; 4: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 5: ● ● ● ●; 6: ● ●; 7: ●; 8: none. Dot plot: pencils in a pencil case. Number line from 2 to 8, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 2: ●; 3: ● ● ●; 4: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 5: ● ● ● ●; 6: ● ●; 7: ●; 8: none. Pencils in a pencil case 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Each dot is one student. A class counted the cups of water each student drank at school today, and Pia made a dot plot (staying hydrated is a team sport). Which number of cups is the most common?
Dot plot: cups of water at school. Number line from 1 to 5, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 1: ●; 2: ● ● ● ● ●; 3: ● ● ●; 4: ●; 5: none. Dot plot: cups of water at school. Number line from 1 to 5, a tick at every 1. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 1: ●; 2: ● ● ● ● ●; 3: ● ● ●; 4: ●; 5: none. cups of water at school 1 2 3 4 5 Each dot is one student. Students recorded the minutes they spent stretching before gym class, and Ren drew the histogram. How many students are in the data set?
Histogram: minutes spent stretching. Horizontal axis: minutes stretching, in bars 5 wide. A value on a line goes in the bar that starts there. Vertical axis: number of students, a tick at every 1. Bar heights: 0 up to 5: 2; 5 up to 10: 5; 10 up to 15: 4. Histogram: minutes spent stretching. Horizontal axis: minutes stretching, in bars 5 wide. A value on a line goes in the bar that starts there. Vertical axis: number of students, a tick at every 1. Bar heights: 0 up to 5: 2; 5 up to 10: 5; 10 up to 15: 4. 0 1 2 3 4 5 2 0 up to 5 5 5 up to 10 4 10 up to 15 minutes stretching, bars 5 wide; a value on a line goes in the bar that starts there number of students A class timed its walk to school, and Tala drew the histogram (the crosswalk guard waved at everyone). How many students are in the data set?
Histogram: minutes of the walk to school. Horizontal axis: minutes walking, in bars 5 wide. A value on a line goes in the bar that starts there. Vertical axis: number of students, a tick at every 1. Bar heights: 0 up to 5: 3; 5 up to 10: 6; 10 up to 15: 2; 15 up to 20: 5. Histogram: minutes of the walk to school. Horizontal axis: minutes walking, in bars 5 wide. A value on a line goes in the bar that starts there. Vertical axis: number of students, a tick at every 1. Bar heights: 0 up to 5: 3; 5 up to 10: 6; 10 up to 15: 2; 15 up to 20: 5. Minutes of the walk to school 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 0 up to 5 6 5 up to 10 2 10 up to 15 5 15 up to 20 minutes walking number of students Horizontal bars are 5 minutes wide. A value on a line goes in the bar that starts there. Band members rounded their practice time to the nearest 5 minutes, and Zee plotted it (the drummer asked for a drumroll). How many band members practiced 30 minutes or more?
Dot plot: minutes of band practice. Number line from 15 to 50, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one band member. Dots above each tick: 15: ●; 20: ● ●; 25: ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ● ●; 40: ● ● ●; 45: ●; 50: none. Dot plot: minutes of band practice. Number line from 15 to 50, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one band member. Dots above each tick: 15: ●; 20: ● ●; 25: ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ● ●; 40: ● ● ●; 45: ●; 50: none. 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 minutes of band practice Swimmers held their breath and rounded the time to the nearest 5 seconds, and Bo made a dot plot (the goggles fogged up). How many swimmers held their breath 30 seconds or more?
Dot plot: seconds holding a breath. Number line from 15 to 40, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one swimmer. Dots above each tick: 15: ●; 20: ● ● ● ●; 25: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ●; 40: ●. Dot plot: seconds holding a breath. Number line from 15 to 40, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one swimmer. Dots above each tick: 15: ●; 20: ● ● ● ●; 25: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ●; 40: ●. seconds holding a breath 15 20 25 30 35 40 Each dot is one swimmer. Students rounded their piano practice to the nearest 5 minutes, and Jun made a dot plot (the metronome kept time). How many students practiced less than 30 minutes?
Dot plot: minutes of piano practice. Number line from 15 to 45, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 15: ● ● ●; 20: ● ● ● ● ●; 25: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ●; 40: ● ●; 45: ●. Dot plot: minutes of piano practice. Number line from 15 to 45, a tick at every 5. Each dot is one student. Dots above each tick: 15: ● ● ●; 20: ● ● ● ● ●; 25: ● ● ● ● ● ●; 30: ● ● ● ●; 35: ● ● ●; 40: ● ●; 45: ●. 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 minutes of piano practice