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Data Collection Introduction
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Data Collection Introduction
📊 Part 1: Understanding Data (Raraunga)
1. What is data? Circle the best answer.
Information we collect to answer questions
A type of food
A computer game
2. Which of these are examples of data? Tick all that apply.
Favourite colours of students in our class
Number of pets each student has
A story book
Heights of students in centimetres
3. Why do people collect data? Circle the best reason.
To find answers to questions
Because it's fun to count
To make noise
❓ Part 2: Creating Questions (Pātai)
4. Write a good question that we could answer by collecting data from our class.
Sentence starters to help you: "How many...?" "What colour...?" "Who likes...?"
5. Circle the questions that could be answered by collecting data.
What is the most popular fruit in our class?
What is the weather like on Mars?
How many siblings do students have?
What happened 1000 years ago?
6. Work with your buddy to think of another data question. Write it here:
📝 Part 3: Recording Data
7. Look at this tally chart showing favourite pets. How many students chose cats?
Dogs: |||| |||| |
Cats: |||| |||
Fish: ||||
Answer: _______ students chose cats.
8. Practice making tally marks. Show 7 using tally marks:
9. Write one thing you learned about collecting data today:
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