3rd Grade Bar Graphs & Pictographs & Tally Marks & Line Plot Game Puzzles

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for graphs? Well look no further as Bar Graph and Pictograph Game Puzzles, for 3.MD.3, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 3rd grade elementary school classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math center rotation, review exercise, small group work, morning work, remediation, intervention or rti. It can be also used as a quiz, drill, test, or assessment tool to help determine student mastery of the learning target. Whether a student is homeschooled or given this as a homework assignment, kids will also love working on these at home to improve their skills.

This puzzle set includes 12 colorful jigsaw puzzles, answer key, and an optional station instruction page with an example. These come as pdf printable sheets that can be printed on card stock and laminated for long-term use. As a suggestion, store them in a sealable gallon storage bag and place them in a tub or bin for students to use throughout the year for enrichment when they finish early. Another idea, for a project, is students can glue the completed puzzles into a notebook or journal as a reference sheet. They can also be glued on a poster for displaying on a bulletin board or as a wall anchor chart.

It covers solving single and multi-step word problems by matching the puzzle pieces for the correct graphs and answer. By solving the questions, students can gain confidence in an important skill and sometimes challenging skill. Your 3rd graders will love to practice and learn to develop strategies about bar graphs, pictographs, tally charts and line plots with this product!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging hands-on manipulative activity with your students! So set those worksheets aside and give our puzzles a try!

Relevant Grade 3 Common Core Standard: 3.MD.B.3
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 3.8 and Virginia SOL 3.17