Year 6 · Spring term · Statistics · Step 1
Year 6 Line graphs worksheets
Read and interpret line graphs. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- The graph shows the temperature in Kelby on one day.a) What was the temperature at 7:00 am? Write the number of °C. ____b) What was the temperature at 11:00 am? Write the number of °C. ____
Show the answer
4; 8
- The graph shows the temperature in Oakby on one day.a) At what time was it warmest? Write the time. ____b) At what time was it coolest? Write the time. ____
Show the answer
9:00 am; noon
- Car 2 lost half of its value between 2012 and 2016.Look at the scale on the side of the graph. Is Boba correct? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
Show the answer
No; Half of £10,000 is £5,000, but car 2 was worth £8,000 in 2016. The scale starts at £6,000, not at £0, so the line seems to fall further than it does.
- A drone flies for one hour. The graph shows its height above the ground.a) What was the greatest height the drone reached? Write the number of metres. ____b) For how many minutes in total did the drone stay at the same height? ____
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300; 15
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.