Stats- Pick your own Question

Collecting The Data

I Do:Teacher poses a Yes/No question to the class.Example Do you like board games? Students respond. 

The teacher collects the data and records it as a tally/graph.

We Do: The teacher poses a multiple‑choice question to the class:Example: “What is your favourite type of game to play?”

Possible answers: Snakes and Ladders, Hopscotch, Marbles, Video Games.

Students respond.Teacher collects the data and records it in a tally chart or table.

 Discuss: The difference between the two questions:

The first question has only two possible answers (Yes/No).

The second question has several possible answers, allowing for more detailed data collection.

Creating The Graph

 I Do: Display clear examples of both bar graphs and dot graphs.Discuss Features of Clear Graphs Introduction to bar and line graphs.pptx

Title: The graph must have a title that explains what the data is about.

Labels: Both axes (for bar graphs) or categories (for dot graphs) should be labeled.

Even Spacing: Bars or dots should be evenly spaced to make comparisons easy.

Discuss out how each feature helps the reader understand the information.

We Do:Teacher to present data to students and as a class how can we put this into a bar graph.

Use the data that you collected yesterday and place this into a bar graph.

Reading The Data

Use the data that you have been using all week.

 I Do: Question Prompts about the data.

Which category had the most responses?

Which had the least?

How many people chose __?

We Do

Ask students to come up with their own questions: Add to the list.
What does this tell us about our class?

You Do: In pairs, students brainstorm their own questions related to transport, clothing, or communication. 

 Their question must have multiple possible answers.

Students ask  members of the class questions and collect the data.

Once they have their tally, they organize the results into a table.

Students are to use their data from yesterday to make a bar graph in their grid books. 

Check that you have used all the items on a bar graph checklist.

Enabling: Picture Graph

Low Mids: Two categories only.

Extension: Use a key

You Do: Students are to use the collabrated Question List to write three to four statements about their graph from yesterday.

They will then present the gathered information to each other in small groups.