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Data Collection and Classification

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Data Collection and Classification

A group of children is planning a picnic. Help them collect, sort and check information. Read each question carefully. For questions with more than one good answer, give all suitable answers.

Collect it carefully

Imagine you want to find out which picnic fruit children like best.

1.Which question would collect clear data about favourite picnic fruit?
  • What is your favourite fruit: apple, banana, orange or grapes?
  • Do you like nice food?
  • What should we eat?
  • How many fruit trees are in Australia?
2.Name two fair ways to collect answers from the children.
3.Bodhi asked each child once and wrote down every answer. What should she do before using the results?

Sort and count

The children chose one favourite fruit each. The answers are shown in the list. Sort each answer into its fruit group.

Apple, banana, orange, apple, grapes, banana, apple, orange, banana, apple, grapes, apple

4.How many children chose each fruit? Complete the tally chart by writing a tally and a total in each row.

Fruit | Tally | Total Apple | ______ | ____ Banana | ______ | ____ Orange | ______ | ____ Grapes | ______ | ____

5.Which fruit was chosen most often? How many children chose it?
6.How many children answered the poll altogether? Show how you worked it out.

Be a data detective

Now check how information is grouped and recorded.

7.A child sorts picnic items into two groups: food and things that are not food. Where should a drink bottle go? Explain your choice.
8.A tally chart has 4 votes for apple, 3 for banana and 2 for orange. One vote was missed. What should the collector do before sharing the results?
9.Write one question you could ask to collect picnic data, then name two groups you could sort the answers into.

3 printable pages

  • Data Collection and Classification, page 1 of 3: Collect it carefully

    Page 1

  • Data Collection and Classification, page 2 of 3: Sort and count

    Page 2

  • Data Collection and Classification, page 3 of 3: Be a data detective

    Page 3

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