Read a bar-chart value

There is a specific mistake recorded against this skill: counts grid intervals as units without decoding the scale. 11+ papers are written to offer exactly that answer, so a child can be confident and still lose the mark. When it keeps happening, the fix is the misunderstanding rather than more questions.

Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Find the Chimneys bar first, then follow its top edge across to the scale on the left and read the number there.

Once it is secure, the skill map opens compare bar-chart values. A comparison requires accurate scale reading.

The skill map draws the line here: Excludes comparing several bars. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.

The data strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to read a bar-chart value are read a line-graph value, read a table cell and calculate an arithmetic mean. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.

Use Bar Reader, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to read a bar-chart value, it runs in the browser with no account to make, these exercises are not scored and do not save learner records. The separate quiz sends answers for marking and shows a score, without saving an assessment record. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.