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Data Collection and Graphs

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Data Collection and Graphs

Data Collection and Graphs

Students collecting data with charts and graphs

📊 Part 1: Understanding Data Collection

1. What is data? Circle the best answer:

Information we collect to answer questions

Numbers only

Pictures and drawings

Stories we tell

2. Why is data important? Check all that apply:

It helps us make decisions

It answers questions about our world

It shows patterns and trends

It helps us understand our community

3. Data is a taonga (treasure). What does this mean?

📝 Part 2: Planning a Survey

4. Write a good survey question about favourite activities at school:
5. Match the survey parts with their meanings:
1. Variable
2. Group
3. Question
4. Data
A. The people we ask
B. What we want to find out
C. The thing that changes (like favourite colour)
D. The answers we collect
6. Before collecting data, we should think about ethics. What does this mean?

Being respectful and fair when asking questions

Only asking easy questions

Collecting as much data as possible

Making sure everyone gives the same answer

📊 Part 3: Tally Charts and Recording Data

7. Complete this tally chart for "Favourite Fruit in Our Class":

Apple: |||| |||| ||| = _______ students

Banana: |||| |||| = _______ students

Orange: |||| || = _______ students

Grapes: |||| = _______ students

8. Draw tally marks to show 7 students chose kiwifruit:
9. Why do we use tally marks instead of just writing numbers?

📈 Part 4: Creating Column Graphs

10. Draw a column graph using the fruit data from question 7:
11. Fill in the blanks about column graphs:

The _____________ axis shows the categories (like types of fruit).

The _____________ axis shows the frequency (how many).

Each _____________ represents one category.

The height of each column shows how _____________ people chose that option.

12. What makes a good column graph? Check all that apply:

Clear title

Labelled axes

Equal spacing between columns

Bright colours only

Numbers on the vertical axis

🔍 Part 5: Analysing Data

13. Looking at your fruit graph, write two sentences about what you found:

Sentence 1: Ko te hua rākau tino rongonui i roto i te akomanga ko ________________

Sentence 2: E ai ki te tātari, ________________

14. Circle the words that help us describe data:

Most popular

Least common

Frequency

Pattern

Comparison

Total

15. If you were to survey your whānau about their favourite weekend activity, what question would you ask?
16. Why is it important to handle data carefully and respectfully?

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