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Our favourite sports
Complete a survey on people’s favourite sports and display the results in a pictogram. Complete a survey on people’s favourite sports and display the results in a chart or graph. Discussion points
- Which sport has the most votes?
- Which sport has the fewest votes?
- What other sports do you know?
- Which sports have you tried/not tried?
- What do you notice?
- Which is the most popular sport?
- Which is the least popular sport?
- Could you sort the sports by quantity?
- How many more people like ___ than ___?
- How many fewer people like ___ than ___?
- What is the difference between sport A and B?
- What is the sum of sports 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 sport A and B?
- What is the sum of sports 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.
PSED: Use as part of ‘Being healthy’ and factors which support their health and wellbeing.
Using the graph in maths encourages children to count and compare numbers and objects.
PSED: Use as part of ‘Being healthy’ and factors which support their health and wellbeing.
Maths: After asking children their preferences, spend time interpreting the graph (see discussion points). They could discuss why some fruits might be more or less popular than others.
Children could choose 2 of the fruits in order to work with more data.
PSHE: use as part of physical and mental health within our ‘health and wellbeing’ folder.
Children could choose 2 of the fruits in order to work with more data.
PSHE: use as part of physical and mental health within our ‘health and wellbeing’ folder.
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 simple scaling, for example, by representing 2 votes 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.
Show simple scaling, for example, by representing 2 votes 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.
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