Data Collection and Classification

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📊 Part 1: Data Collection Practice

1. What is the most important thing to do when collecting data?

Collect it quickly

Make sure it's accurate and complete

Use lots of colours

Ask easy questions only

2. You want to find out "What colour hair do students in our class have?" Which of these would be good ways to collect this data? (Tick all that apply)

Look at each student and record their hair colour

Ask each student what colour their hair is

Guess without looking

Use a tally chart to count

3. Sarah is collecting data about pets. She asks 10 friends and writes down their answers. What should she do next?

Put her pencil away - she's finished

Check her data for mistakes and missing information

Ask 10 more friends

Colour in her chart

4. Complete this sentence: When we classify data, we _____________ it into groups.

When we classify data, we _____________ it into groups.

🗂️ Part 2: Classification Challenge

5. Look at this list of transport: car, bicycle, bus, train, skateboard, aeroplane, boat, scooter. How could you classify these into two groups? Write your two group names and list the transport for each.

Group 1: _________________________

Group 2: _________________________

6. Emma collected data about favourite school subjects. Her results were: Maths, Art, Science, Maths, Sport, Art, Maths, Science, Art, Sport, Maths. Help her classify this data by completing the tally chart:

Maths: _______________

Art: _______________

Science: _______________

Sport: _______________

7. Why is it important to classify data into groups?

🔍 Part 3: Data Detective

8. You are a Data Detective! Look at this data collection about favourite fruits: "Apple, banana, apple, orange, apple, grape, banana, apple, ornge, apple" What mistakes can you find? Circle or write them below:

9. Plan your own data collection question. Write: My question: _________________________________________________ How I will collect the data:

How I will classify (group) my data: