🍎 Part 1: Gather the Raraunga (Data)

WALT: We Are Learning To ask a statistical question, collect responses and organise data.

Our question: He aha tō huarākau tino pai? What is your favourite fruit?

Success criteria: I can record one response from each person. I can use tally marks and count carefully.

Word bank: huarākau = fruit · raraunga = data · tatau = count · tino pai = favourite · kauwhata = graph

🍎 Apple / āporo    🍌 Banana / panana    🍊 Orange / karaka

🍐 Pear    🌈 Other

🍎 Apple / āporo: Tally ____________   Count ______

🍌 Banana / panana: Tally ____________   Count ______

🍊 Orange / karaka: Tally ____________   Count ______

🍐 Pear: Tally ____________   Count ______

🌈 Other: Tally ____________   Count ______

📊 Part 2: Make a Kauwhata (Graph)

WALT: We Are Learning To display data in a picture graph or bar graph and describe what it shows.

Success criteria: I can give my graph a title, label the fruit choices and use one square or picture for each response.

Use your class counts. Draw a bar graph or picture graph. Add a title, fruit labels and a key if you use pictures.

Graph title: __________________________________________________________

Number of responses

Fruit choices: Apple · Banana · Orange · Pear · Other

Support: use counters, draw one symbol for each person, or work with a partner. You may explain your graph orally.

Read this fixed example data

Example class counts: Apple 6 · Banana 5 · Orange 4 · Pear 3 · Other 1. Total = 19.

✅ Part 3: Check and Extend

Reflection: Complete the sentence: “The most popular fruit was __________ because __________ people chose it.”

Challenge for mathematicians

Compare the example data with another class or group. Write two true statements using “more than”, “fewer than”, tino tokomaha or tino tokoiti.

Answer check for the fixed example

4. Apple.   5. Other.   6. 19 learners.   7. 3 more learners. Question 8 will depend on your own class graph.

Learning support: Point to the fruit pictures, use the word bank, count with a partner or use counters. You may give an oral answer to a teacher or partner before writing it.