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What is your favourite colour?
Complete a survey on people’s favourite colours and display the results in a pictogram. Complete a survey on people’s favourite colours and display the results in a chart or graph. Discussion points
- Which colour has the most votes?
- Which colour has the fewest votes?
- What do each of the colours remind you of?
- What do you notice?
- Which is the most popular colour?
- Which is the least popular colour?
- Which colours are primary colours?
- Which are secondary colours?
- How many more people like ___ than ___?
- How many fewer people like ___ than ___?
- What is the difference between colour A and B?
- What is the sum of colours A, B and C?
- What does the data tell us?
- How many more people like ___ than ___?
- How many fewer people like ___ than ___?
- What is the difference between colour A and B?
- What is the sum of colours A, B and C?
- What does the data tell us?
- What is the mean score?
Teaching tips:
The graph activities are great for getting children to express their preferences, to promote discussion or to ensure children listen to and value the opinion of others.
Using the graph in maths encourages children to count and compare numbers and objects.
Expressive art and design: give children time to experiment with colour by colour mixing with paints and seeing the results. Or let children have their own ‘Pretty Things: Paint party’ to see what creations they can make using the tools.
Using the graph in maths encourages children to count and compare numbers and objects.
Expressive art and design: give children time to experiment with colour by colour mixing with paints and seeing the results. Or let children have their own ‘Pretty Things: Paint party’ to see what creations they can make using the tools.
Maths: After asking children their colour preferences, spend time interpreting the graph (see discussion points). They could discuss what each colour reminds them of or explain why they chose the colour they did.
Children could choose 2 colours in order to work with more data.
Art: let children have fun with colours using ‘Pretty Things: Paint party’ or ‘Pretty Things: Wonder wheel’.
Children could choose 2 colours in order to work with more data.
Art: let children have fun with colours using ‘Pretty Things: Paint party’ or ‘Pretty Things: Wonder wheel’.
After filling in the information, spend time interpreting the graph and what is shows. Present children with a range of comparison, sum and difference problems to support work on interpreting information in a variety of graphs (see discussion points).
Show how simple scaling works, for example, by representing 2 people with each line of the chart.
Older children could convert between pie and line graphs and have a go at finding the mean (average) score.
Art: let children have fun with colours using ‘Pretty Things: Spin and shake’ or ‘Pretty Things: Wonder wheel’.
Show how simple scaling works, for example, by representing 2 people with each line of the chart.
Older children could convert between pie and line graphs and have a go at finding the mean (average) score.
Art: let children have fun with colours using ‘Pretty Things: Spin and shake’ or ‘Pretty Things: Wonder wheel’.
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