NCERT Solutions for Class 5th Maths Chapter 15 Data Through Pictures
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
Data means the facts we collect. Samaira and Kabir asked 35 friends one question: How many hours a day do you spend watching TV? Every answer they wrote down is one piece of data. A pile of 35 answers is hard to read. So the first job is always to sort the answers into groups and count each group . Nine friends said half an hour, thirteen said one hour, seven said one and a half hours, three said two hours and three said two and a half hours. 9 + 13 + 7 + 3 + 3 = 35. The count is complete. A table is the first picture of data. A table has two columns: what you counted on the left, how many on the right. Once the 35 answers sit in a table you can read anything off it in a second — which group is biggest, which is smallest, how many in two groups together. A pictograph shows data with small
- Samaira and Kabir collect data from 35 friends
- Joseph Uncle's pictograph, and what a scale does
- Deepti's pictograph, where one icon stands for 3
- Raman's table and Sheela's bar graph
- Record your own 24 hours and draw your own bar graph
- A bar graph made from paper strips
- Reading data straight from a picture of a group of children
Exercises
- Samaira and Kabir collect data from 35 friends — Child TV Reporter Page 179–180
- Joseph Uncle's pictograph, and what a scale does — Stock-Taking in a Shop Page 180–181
- Deepti's pictograph, where one icon stands for 3 — Two-wheelers on the Road Page 181–182
- Raman's table and Sheela's bar graph — Recording a Day Page 182–183
- Record your own 24 hours and draw your own bar graph — Day in My Life Page 183–184
- A bar graph made from paper strips — Whose Index Finger is Longer? Page 184–185
- Rani's dining hall notice board and the food wastage bar graph — Food Wastage in the School Canteen Page 185–186
- Reading data straight from a picture of a group of children — True or False Page 187