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Data Collection Tally Charts

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Data Collection Tally Charts

Help plan a picnic by collecting and reading data. Remember: in a tally chart, the fifth mark crosses the first four.

Read the picnic data

Zoe asked 12 friends, “Which picnic fruit would you choose?” Their answers were: apple, banana, apple, pear, banana, apple, pear, apple, banana, apple, pear, apple.

1.What was Zoe trying to find out with her question?
  • Which fruit her friends would choose
  • How many friends she has
  • Which fruit is the biggest
2.Count the answers. How many friends chose apples?
3.Complete this tally chart using the answers above. Use a slash to cross the fifth tally mark.

Fruit: Apple

Fruit: Banana

Fruit: Pear

4.How many friends chose banana or pear altogether?
5.Which fruit was chosen most often?

Collect and think

A good data question is clear and asks everyone the same thing. Try these picnic-planning challenges.

6.Write one clear question you could ask your group to help plan a picnic.
7.True or false? To compare answers fairly, ask every person the same question.
TrueFalse
8.Four more friends answer Zoe’s fruit question: banana, pear, banana, apple. Update the totals: apple __, banana __, pear __.
9.After the four new answers, which fruit is least popular? How many fewer people chose it than apple?
10.Kai asks, “Do you like apples?” Is this the same as asking which fruit someone would choose? Explain briefly.

3 printable pages

  • Data Collection Tally Charts, page 1 of 3: Read the picnic data

    Page 1

  • Data Collection Tally Charts, page 2 of 3: Collect and think

    Page 2

  • Data Collection Tally Charts, page 3 of 3: 10. Kai asks, “Do you like apples?” Is this the same as asking which fruit someone

    Page 3

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