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Data Collection Basics

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Data Collection Basics

🔍 Part 1: Understanding Data

1. What is data?

Information we collect to answer questions

Only numbers

Pictures we draw

2. Which of these are examples of categorical data? (Tick all that apply)

Favourite colours

Types of pets

Number of books

Favourite sports

3. Which of these are examples of numerical data? (Tick all that apply)

How many siblings you have

Your favourite fruit

Number of pencils in your pencil case

How many pets you have

4. Why do we collect data?

📊 Part 2: Tally Marks Practice

5. Complete the tally marks for each number:

3 = ____________________

7 = ____________________

12 = ____________________

6. Count these tally marks and write the number:

|||| |||| = __________

|||| |||| ||| = __________

7. You asked your classmates about their favourite fruit. Use tally marks to record this data:

Apple: 6 people chose apple

Tally marks: ____________________

Banana: 4 people chose banana

Tally marks: ____________________

Orange: 8 people chose orange

Tally marks: ____________________

🎯 Part 3: Data Collection Activity

8. Design a survey question to ask your family members. Write your question below:
9. What type of data will your question collect?

Categorical data

Numerical data

10. Create a tally chart to collect data for your question:
11. Explain why it's important to collect data carefully and accurately:

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