6th grade making histograms worksheets

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Making histograms worksheets for 6th grade give your child a short list of data values, a set of labeled intervals, and an empty axis, and ask for the bars. Four problems per sheet, each a new histogram to draw. The interval rule is printed on the page: a value on the left edge belongs to the interval, a value on the right edge does not.

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The kind of problems you'll get

Use the data to complete each histogram. Each interval includes its left edge and excludes its right edge.

  1. Data: 1, 2, 2, 4. Intervals: 0 ≤ x ; x < 3 and 3 ≤ x ; x < 6.

    Answer: The bar heights are 3 and 1.

Most problems on this sheet sit beside a picture, model or diagram, so this is the worked example the sheet itself prints. The answer key on page two prints the answer under every problem.

Every print pulls a fresh set of problems at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling never gets the same sheet.

What's on each sheet

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key after the problems.

This sheet is one of the versions on the 6th grade histograms page, with its own difficulty choices and its own answer key.

How to teach this

Have your child tally before drawing anything. Write the intervals down the margin, then cross each data value off the list as it gets a tick mark. A value that sits exactly on a boundary is the trap. The sheet's rule puts it in the interval that starts with that number, so a 3 goes in the 3 to 6 bin and never in the 0 to 3 bin. Once the tallies are done, drawing is reading the scale: each bar rises to its count. One quick check catches most slips. Add the bar heights and compare to the number of values in the list. If the two disagree, a value was counted twice or skipped, and the tallies show where.

Watch for: Kids drop a boundary value into both intervals, or into neither. Every value goes in exactly one bin. It belongs to the interval whose left edge it sits on, and the sheet says so. Kids draw a bar for every single number in the data instead of one bar per interval. A histogram groups values into ranges first. Tally into the intervals, then draw one bar for each.

Common questions about 6th grade making histograms

What is on a making histograms sheet?
Four problems, each with its own data list, labeled intervals, and a blank axis with a scale. Your child sorts the values into the intervals and draws a bar for each one. The Remember box on the page states the rule about edges, and a worked example shows one finished pair of bar heights before the first problem.
How are the intervals written?
Each interval is given by its two edges, and the rule on the sheet is fixed: a value equal to the left edge counts in that interval, and a value equal to the right edge does not. So with intervals from 0 to 3 and from 3 to 6, a value of 3 counts in the second one.
Is there more than one difficulty?
No. This sheet comes in one version. Every print draws new data and new intervals, so a second copy is new practice of the same task. It sits on the 6th grade standard for displaying data in histograms, 6.SP.B.4.

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Aligned to Common Core 6.SP.B.4. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 241, updated September 2026.

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