Module 7 Handling data
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Can I use a table, pictogram or block graph to answer questions?

Example review questions

  • Who picked up the most cubes in one hand? How do you know?
    Table showing how many cubes different people can pick up in one hand
  • Who do you think has the smallest hand? Why?
  • What else does this table tell you?
  • Tell me one thing that this chart shows.
  • What can you say about lime flavour ice cream from this chart?
  • What does the tallest column mean?
  • How many people were asked? How do you know?

Teaching guidance

This teaching guidance document suggests some of the key vocabulary, models, images and practical equipment that children should experience and be able to use. It also includes some teaching tips to provide a few starting points for ways of supporting children with this area of mathematics.

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Consolidation and practice

This resource is to support children in guided or independent work.

PDF file Solve mathematical challenges by presenting solutions in a table (e.g. challenges 1 and 2) | 643KB new window

Opportunities to use and apply

Possible contexts include:

  • Cross–curricular links, e.g. in science discover how many different kinds of minibeasts live in different parts of the school grounds.
  • Testing a hypothesis, e.g. I think that most first names in our class have more than five letters? What do we need to do to test if this is true?

 

  • Solving a problem, e.g. Is it quicker to write or type sentences? Discuss how this could be answered, what data needs to be collected and how it could be recorded to help answer this question.

Confirming learning

A block graph showing how different people travel to school
Ask probing questions such as:
  • Look at this block graph.
  • Which way of travelling to school is used by most children? Explain how you know.
    Can you think of another question you could ask and answer using the data?
  • Do you think it's true that most children in our class have packed lunches? How could we find out? Make a list or table and explain what you have found out.