Data Handling

[Guest]

Hi!

 

My numeracy co-ordinator is doing some montitoring htis term on data handling and wants to sample work from all year groups - might be being a bit slow but not sure what she wants from class r? what is everyone else doing under the umbrella of data handling?

thanks!

Sara

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We've only done pictograms based on class surveys - favourite colour/ toy etc.

[Guest]

Can see where u are coming from ASPK, we don't do much in the way of recording the numeracy we do, we keep it as practical as possible. However, children recording pictorially as they sort objects into sets, drawing shapes on a chart on a shape hunt, pictograms(as saraholl posted) are all early forms of data handling. Towards the end of year r we do introduce tallying and maybe you could do some as a means of data handling (Fav fruit, colour, dinner/sandwiches etc)

Hope that helps a bit

Trudie

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OOOPS, just realised it was saraholl that posted this post and not ASPK. Sorry both of you but hope ideas are helpful to you both

T

[Guest]

Perhaps a tower or bricks to represent dinners/sandwiches which would need to be photographed. A photo of children sorting themselves/ objects into groups holding up numerals.

[Guest]

Perhaps a tower or bricks to represent dinners/sandwiches which would need to be photographed. A photo of children sorting themselves/ objects into groups holding up numerals.

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We have just done a Bar chart type graph of favourite flavours of crisps.

On a large piece of card I stapled an empty packet of each flavour along the top and then during tasting time I asked each child which was their favourite flavour and they stuck a smiley face sticker under that packet.We then counted the smiley faces and found out the most popular flavour.does that sound a bit like whay youre looking for.Im Nursery so you could probably extend activity more for Reception Hope this helps

Crestacat

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We did basic data handling when doing cereals. I took in multiboxes (individual portions) of various cereals and we put a different coloured multilink with each box. Children tasted all and decided which was their favourite. When all had finished we made towers, counted how many in each and discussed which was favourite, least favourite, which had same number of votes etc. We then ordered the towers. We made a simple bar chart type thing, with the cereal boxes stuck on the bottom and smiley faces for each vote. Black Cat has some simple data handling topics if you're looking to use IT - may need a adult sitting with them as they get a bit click happy

 

Hope this helps,

Harricroft

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What a good idea to put cubes inside boxes and then count them up. will give that a go next half term.

Trudie

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We're just finishing off a week on the story of 'The Gingerbread Man'. One of the things we did was that I said I was interested in finding out which part of a gingerbread man children liked to eat first. All the children had a gingerbread man and were allowed to take one bite out of it. We then talked about whether they had eaten the head, an arm or the legs first. I said I wanted all the children to stand in a group according to which bit they had eaten first so we ended up with 3 groups. I then said that it was really great all the children being in groups because if anyone walked into the classroom then they could see how many children liked to eat heads etc. I then pointed out that this meant that all the children would have to stand in these groups forever. They didn't think much of this (!) so we talked about what we could do instead. They came up with some good ideas: draw pictures, write down the numbers etc. What we actually did was all have a paper gingerbread man and tore off the body part we had eaten first! We then stuck these onto individual sheets labelled with pictures of heads, arms or legs. We then counted and labelled each sheet and used these to answer simple questions. They were even able to answer how we could find out how many children altogether had eaten gingerbread men which I thought was very clever of them!

Edited February 9, 2006 by Guest

[Guest]

Thank you all for your ideas!

Love the Gingerbread man idea - it is one of our weeks in next terms topic of Traditional Tales so fits in beautifully! will definately be doing that one!

Thank you!

Sara