Statistics

WALT gather, sort and display data

What is data?

Data are facts, information or numbers.

Data is collected and looked at carefully to help us make decisions about things.

We can gather data in different ways

We made different groups around Room 9 to show our favourite activity. The biggest group of learners was for Mangere Pools.

This is the data we collected when everyone voted by putting up their hands.

We voted by putting up our hands and recorded the numbers on the whiteboard. Mangere Pools received the most votes.

We could have used a tally chart to gather the data.

We also gathered data using Post It notes. Each person wrote their favourite activity on one. We sorted the data on a big piece of paper.

Here are some examples of how we can display data in a graph. This is a bar graph.

Here are some examples of how we can display data in a graph. This is a pie graph.

This pictograph is an example of how we can display our data in a graph.

This pictograph is an example of how we can display our data in a graph using a Google drawing.

How many people liked each camp activity?

Room 9’s favourite activities at camp:

Movie - 2

Kayaking - 3

Concert - 2

Bike Track - 3

Mangere Pools - 9

Your task is to create a pictograph in a Google drawing.

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Name drawing:

Pictograph - favourite camp activity

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Folder = Maths

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Find one picture for each activity on Google Images.

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Create a pictograph:

1 picture = 1 person