MODULE 1 : PICTOGRAPHY

ANKUR CLUB

What is Pictography? A pictograph is a type of graph that uses

pictures to tell how many items are being counted

Pictographs can come in all shapes and sizes.

More about pictography! Made up of pictures which are used to

represent numbers Like bar graphs, they are used to compare

data. Very eye-catching and often used in

newspapers and magazines.

In the next two slides, you will find two very interesting PICTOGRAPHS :

The first pictograph gives pictures of animals to identify them quickly.

The next picture shows the colour whose names are given right beside.

Q. Try to count each item in both the pictographs

PICTOGRAPHY : EXAMPLE 1 :

Cat

Dog

Horse

Hamster

Turtle

PICTOGRAPHY : EXAMPLE 2 :

Red

Green

Blue

Orange

Pink

Red

Green

Blue

Orange

Pink

Total Chart

PICTOGRAPHY : EXAMPLE 3:

Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer

= 2

In the picture below, each leaf is assigned value 2. Try to count the number of leaves in each season!

= 2

PICTOGRAPHY- OLDEST WRITING

The oldest writing was pictographic, meaning that the sign for an object was written to resemble the object itself;

Let’s practiceLet’s create a pictograph to represent the following question:

How many hours a day do you spend watching television?