

An IB DP Physics skill pack on tables, charts and graphs (SL and HL, first assessment 2025): six worked examples, eight figures and 30 answered questions.
This pack drills the steps that Paper 1B and the internal assessment mark again and again. The IB guide wants these steps taught inside the topics that need them. So this pack supports topic teaching. It is not a unit of the course.
This pack is worked, not taught. The 250 minutes it takes is student working time, not teaching time. Split it into five sittings. The worksheet marks each place to stop.
What students learn:
- Building the table: quantity / unit headings, raw columns to the instrument’s precision, processed columns to the figures the readings support, a worked calculation and observations beside it
- Choosing the chart: continuous or discrete, then bar, pie, histogram, scatter, or line and curve
- Setting up the axes: 1, 2 or 5 units per large square, readings filling at least half of each axis, and when to start at zero
- Plotting and fitting: to better than half a small square, one line or smooth curve of best fit, never a dot-to-dot, and the anomalous point
- Reading the graph: interpolating, extrapolating, when to trust an extrapolation, and describing the trend
Practice A: seven fluency items (six drill tables, 47 rows) and 62 answers. Practice B: ten applied items, 32 lettered parts. Practice C: four multiple-choice items, every option explained, and three structured questions worth 33 marks.
IB skills (Tool 3: Mathematics, with Inquiry 2). Taught: building tables and graphs, and choosing charts; extrapolating and interpolating; telling continuous from discrete variables. Practised: plotting with scales and axes, best-fit lines and curves, graph features, significant figures, SI prefixes, describing trends, reading graphs and charts, qualitative observations.
What’s included:
- Student Worksheet, 41 pages, answers removed, colour and B&W
- Teacher Key, 53 pages, every answer, the model graph on each grid, teaching notes
- The editable worksheet, a self-contained HTML file
Worksheet and key come from one source file, so they always agree. Grades 11-12 (ages 16-19).
Part of the IB DP Physics IA and Paper 1B Skills Bundle, 30% off buying the packs separately.
Related resources:
- Uncertainties on a Graph, the same graph with uncertainty bars on it
- Graphical Analysis of Motion, where students read graphs in a topic
- Measuring the Acceleration of Free Fall, the practical that plots real data (free)
- Investigating Newton’s Second Law, where a results table becomes two graphs
Updated 29 Oct 2026: please reprint.
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