Graphs

 
This activity, using KidPix as a learning and thinking tool, has been aligned with the SACSA frameworks and is intended to provide the learning described below.

BAND - Primary Years
 

LEARNING AREAS STRANDS OUTCOMES
Mathematics Exploring, analysing and modelling data 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS EVE: Key Competencies LIT., NUM. AND ICT
F, T, C,   KC1, KC2, KC5, KC6, KC7 Num, ICT

KEY IDEAS
Mathematics 
Students generate and analyse data from a diverse range of sources and perspectives... They use this data to explore patterns and relationships and to inform their choices and actions.

Students draw conclusions from data they collect ... They make predictions and informal inferences for similar situations and communicate their conclusions and predictions to a variety of audiences.

Students refine their understanding of chance and randomness by using data from their daily activities to describe possible outcomes and their likelihood. They analyse trends and relationships and make predictions about possibilities in the future.

STUDENT TASKS
Graph
Open the graph grid template.
Use the Wacky Paint Brush and select one of the following options to create data: 

  • Galaxy of Stars 
  • Bugs 
  • Hugs and Kisses 
  • Shapes 
  • Buttons and Bows
Enter 30 samples of data into the data grid. 
Use the data to make a column graph.
Add numbers along the side and data types along the bottom.
Finish your graph by adding a title.
Try it again with the same data type or try it with other data if you wish.

Graph Information
Choose one of your graphs and look at the information on it carefully.
Open one of the spiral pad templates.
Choose a large font to write the title of your graph in the centre of the page at the top.
Choose a smaller font to write 5 or more things you noticed or discovered about your data. 
Write each piece of information in a sentence on a new line.
Add your name.

EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK (YEAR 3)

by Jaya

 
By Kellie
 
© 2001 Jackie Miers
bobandco@health.on.net
December,  2001