Kids can be taught about organizing data, analysis, and
presentation through a simple survey activity. Children learn best when they
move around and collect data. After collecting the data, they learn to present
the data through a simple graph. These
hands on graphing practice will help them to read graphs and tables at more
advanced levels later.
We did two surveys this week. The first day, my daughter and I stood in
our balcony and recorded the traffic data for 10 minutes. I helped my little one
to draw the tally marks to 5 and also to draw the bar graph for her data. The
first bar graph was not to scale as shown here. The main idea here is to show
how the graph represents the data.
The next day, she was given with another project – Tree survey. She recorded the count of our backyard trees.
Then I gave her a graph sheet (hand drawn) and asked her to draw the bar
graph. We also had an analysis session like “10
more than, equal to, 5 less than, 2 more than,etc".
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