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Data Collection Tally Charts

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Data Collection Tally Charts

Children collecting data with tally charts

📊 Part 1: Understanding Tally Charts

1. What is a tally chart used for?

To count and organise data

To draw pictures

To write stories

2. How many tally marks are shown here? |||| |||| ||

10

12

11

3. Draw tally marks to show the number 8:
4. Complete this tally chart about favourite colours in Room 5:

Red: |||| |||| = _____ students

Blue: |||| ||| = _____ students

Green: |||| | = _____ students

🍎 Part 2: Collecting Data

5. You want to find out about favourite fruits in your class. What question would you ask?
6. Create a tally chart for favourite pets. Use the data below:

Data collected: Dog, Cat, Dog, Fish, Dog, Cat, Bird, Dog, Cat, Fish, Dog

Pet            Tally Marks            Total

Dog            _________________         _____

Cat             _________________         _____

Fish            _________________         _____

Bird            _________________         _____

7. Looking at your tally chart above, which pet is the most popular?

The most popular pet is: _________________

8. Which pet is the least popular?

The least popular pet is: _________________

💭 Part 3: Thinking About Data

9. Look at this tally chart about favourite school subjects:

Maths: |||| |||| ||||

Reading: |||| |||| |||| ||||

Art: |||| ||

PE: |||| |||| |||| |||| |

Write one thing you notice about this data:

10. Think of a question you could ask your classmates to collect data about. Write your question here:
11. Why is it important to ask everyone the same question when collecting data?

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