What is a pictograph?

What is a pictograph? A graph is a visual way to display information. A pictograph is a special type of graph that uses pictures or symbols to display information. The pictures or symbols in a pictograph usually represent more than one item. The following is an example of a pictograph:

The pictograph above has a title and a scale. 

• The title of this pictograph is "Number of circles drawn"

• The scale that the pictograph is using is this: One circle represents 5 circles.

Let us say that the circles were drawn by David, Peter, John, Brown, and Jennifer.

Having said that we can make the following observations:

• David drew 15 circles since we have 3 circles and each circle represents 5 circles (5 times 3 = 15).

• John drew 7.5 circles. How did we get 7.5?

• Jennifer drew 20 circles since we have 4 circles and each circle represents 5 circles (5 times 4 = 20).

An exercise that will show you how to construct a pictograph

Construct a pictograph with the following table

You can follow this guideline in order to construct the pictograph.

• For this pictograph, we can draw faces to represent the drivers.

• We can still use the same title "Number of taxi drivers in five cities"

• Since we are really dealing with very big numbers here, we can just use 1 face to represent 5 taxi drivers. 

Suppose for instance, you were dealing with very big numbers such as hundreds of drivers in a city, you could have used 1 face to represent 100 drivers. 

Here is the pictograph.

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