6th grade reading histograms worksheets
Reading histograms worksheets for 6th grade print 5 problems per page. Read each histogram and answer each question. Each interval includes its left edge and excludes its right edge. Histogram bars count data within intervals. Read the interval boundaries and frequency scale carefully.
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The kind of problems you'll get
Read each histogram and answer each question. Each interval includes its left edge and excludes its right edge.
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Two intervals have frequencies 3 and 5. How many values are in those intervals altogether?
Answer: 3 + 5 = 8 values.
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What's on each sheet
- Reading histograms. Read each histogram and answer each question. Each interval includes its left edge and excludes its right edge. 5 problems per page.
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
Start every problem at the axis: find the gridline the bar touches and say the count out loud. Then ask what the label means: the 10–19 bin holds every value from 10 through 19, and you cannot tell where inside it they fall. For totals, add all the bar heights; a quick pencil tick above each bar keeps the sum honest. When constructing a histogram, tally the values into the supplied intervals before drawing any bars.
Watch for: Kids read a histogram like a bar graph of single values. Each bar covers a whole range, and the individual values disappear into their bin. Kids answer with the tallest bar's label when the total is asked. The total means adding every bar's height, not naming the biggest bin.
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Aligned to Common Core 6.SP.B.4, 6.SP.B.5.a. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 241, updated September 2026.
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