Grade 4 Common Core Math: Data and Graphs

Grade 4 Math: Data is a printable unit on collecting, organizing, graphing and describing data, built around Common Core 3.MD.B.3 (scaled bar graphs, a Grade 3 standard) with statistics and probability pages that stretch beyond Grade 4 (6.SP.A.1, 6.SP.B.5, 7.SP.C.5). It does not cover the one Grade 4 data standard, 4.MD.B.4 (line plots with fractions of a unit); line plots appear only as a graph choice on pages 11 and 12. Students sort questions into qualitative and quantitative, collect data from people and from U.S. government sources, and organize it in frequency tables and stem-and-leaf plots. They choose between pictographs, line plots, bar graphs and multiple-bar graphs, draw them on blank grids with a title, labels, a scale and a source, and read graphs at three levels: reading off a value, comparing, and arguing a conclusion. Then they find the mean, median and mode, explain what each one says, and place events on a probability line.

Two pages use real weather data from NOAA’s Applied Climate Information System: Philadelphia’s daily high temperatures for June 2026 become a stem-and-leaf plot with two modes, and six months of rain and snow in Atlanta and Seattle become a multiple-bar graph that surprises anyone who thinks Seattle is always the wetter city. A two-page class data investigation takes students from their own question to an infographic they present, and a probability page has the class predict whether another class’s mean, median and mode will match its own, then test it.

Inside: teacher notes with a teaching order over about four weeks, timing, materials, differentiation, the common misconceptions for each topic and a map from Common Core standard to pages; five teaching pages with worked examples; eleven practice pages; three activities; an end-of-strand assessment; and an answer key with every answer worked out. Everything is in black and white and nothing depends on color. The free sample is the teacher notes and the stem-and-leaf practice page.