Chart Builder Adventure!

Build a Brilliant Bar Chart and Master Data Skills!

Welcome to Bar Chart Builder Adventure! This game turns collecting data and drawing charts into a fun, interactive challenge. It’s the perfect way to help children in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 understand how tally charts, pictograms, and bar charts work.

Your job is to run a fun survey! As each person “votes,” you must click the correct bar to add their vote. Watch the bar chart grow and the tally marks fill up! Once the survey is complete, you will be quizzed on the data to make sure you can read and interpret your final chart.

How to Play

1. Choose a Topic: Select a survey topic (like ‘Favourite Pets’).
2. Collect Votes: A random vote will appear. Click the matching bar in the chart to add the vote to the correct category.
3. Watch the Chart Grow: The bars will rise, and the tally chart will update as you collect all 15 votes.
4. Answer the Questions: Once the chart is complete, you will be asked questions about the data, such as “Which was the most popular?” or “How many more votes did X get than Y?”.

Learning Objectives & Curriculum Links

This game directly supports key data-handling objectives within the UK’s National Curriculum for maths:

• Year 2/3 (KS1/LKS2): Focuses on objectives to “interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables” and to “ask and answer simple questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.”
• Year 4: Moves towards “interpreting and presenting discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts.”
• Key Maths Focus:
  • Tallying: Practices the standard 5-gate method of counting.
  • Comparing Data: The final quiz tests skills in finding the mode (most popular), minimum (least popular), and calculating the difference between two data sets.

Enjoy building your bar chart and becoming a data wizard!