In previous lessons, students reviewed how to create and interpret single-unit scale picture graphs. In this lesson, students learn that a scaled picture graph is a picture graph where each picture represents an amount other than 1. Students read, interpret, and answer questions about scaled picture graphs with a scale of 2 and 5. They also generate questions that can be answered by these graphs.

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Tell students that, at the end of the lesson, they will be asked to identify specific actions from their “Doing Math” list that they personally experienced.

In this lesson, students make sense of scaling a picture graph by a number other than 1. How does this support the work that students will do with multiplication later in this unit?