An IB DP Physics skill pack on tables, charts and graphs (SL and HL, first assessment 2025): six modelled examples, eight figures and 30 answered questions, the largest pack in this line.

It drills the five moves the data-analysis section of Paper 1 is marked on, and the internal assessment with it. The syllabus assumes these techniques but no topic owns them: the IB asks for them to be practised inside the topics that need them, so this is a supplement, not a taught unit.

This pack is worked, not taught: the teaching duration shown is student working time across the practice bank, 240 minutes, not classroom delivery time. It splits into five sittings, the longest 75 minutes.

What students learn:

• The results table: quantity / unit headings, raw columns to the instrument’s precision, processed columns to the figures the readings earn
• Continuous or discrete, and the chart it picks: bar, pie, histogram, scatter, line and curve
• Axes and scale: 1, 2 or 5 units per large square, readings filling half of each axis, and when to start at zero
• Plotting to half a small square, one line or smooth curve of best fit, never a dot-to-dot, and the anomalous point
• Reading the graph: interpolation, extrapolation, the three tests that justify an extrapolation, and describing a trend

Three tiers: A, seven fluency items, six drill tables, 47 rows, 63 answers; B, ten applied items, 30 lettered parts; C, four multiple-choice items with every option explained and three structured questions worth 33 marks.

IB skills (Tool 3: Mathematics, with Inquiry 2). Taught: constructing and interpreting tables, charts and graphs; extrapolating and interpolating; continuous against discrete variables. Practised: plotting with scales and axes, best-fit lines and curves, graph features, significant figures, SI prefixes, describing trends, interpreting charts.

What’s included:

• Student Worksheet, 37 pages, answers stripped out, colour and B&W
• Teacher Key, 51 pages, every answer, the model graph drawn on each grid, teaching notes
• The editable worksheet, a self-contained HTML file

Worksheet and key are two projections of one source, so no answer file can drift. Grades 11-12 (ages 16-19).

Related resources:

• Uncertainties on a Graph, the same graph with uncertainty bars on it
• Graphical Analysis of Motion, where a graph is read inside a topic
• Measuring the Acceleration of Free Fall, the practical that plots one (free)