Veia, LucianoBrocardo, JoanaPonte, João Pedro da2015-07-222015-07-232015-06Veia, L., Brocardo, J. & Ponte, J. P. (2015). Interpretation of pictograms by 3rd grade pupils: the teacher’s role. In Oliveira, H., Henriques, A., Canavarro, A. P., Monteiro, C., Carvalho, C., Ponte, J. P., Ferreira, R. T., & Colaço, S. (Eds.) (2015). Proceedings of the International Conference Turning data into knowledge: New opportunities for statistics education (74-83). Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa.978-989-8753-13-7AUT: LVE00230;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/6679In this paper we analyze how a primary school teacher (João) leads the discussion of a task in a grade 3 class aimed at reading and interpreting pictograms. The paper is part of a larger study that follows an interpretative and qualitative research methodology with a case study design. The results indicate that, in his teaching practice, the teacher strives to ask questions so that his pupils are not limited to the identification of categories of high and low frequency characteristic, that is, "reading the data", but also raises questions related to "reading between the data" and "beyond the data."engPictogramsTeacherTeachingconference object