Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Statistics - Graphs

Today we learnt about tally charts and pictographs.  We surveyed ten class members and asked them this question...
What colour eyes do you have?
We recorded our data on a tally chart.
We also wrote a title for our pictographs.
Tally Charts
Tally charts help us collect and organise data. The data in a tally chart should be clear and displayed in easy-to-count groups of five.
Pictographs
Pictographs use pictures to represent data, making it easy to compare data visually. To read a pictograph, you start by looking at the key to see how many of a given item each picture stands for. Over the next weeks we will use a key with a scale of one, two, or five, meaning each picture represents one, two, or five of that item.

Tomorrow we will post some photos of our work.

1 comment:

KG said...

Hi Room 16, welcome back to the new school year for 2012.
I love statistics and all things to do with maths. What were your findings for the survey you carried out today? I wonder whether blue eyes are more predominant in Room 16 than brown eyes. Are there fewer green eyes than blue or brown? Let us all know your findings as I would be interested to know.
Kerry