MORE GRAPHING FUN

1M,

Here are links to some great sites I found that

will help you display your data in a bar graph.

Here's the graph I created on this site after I entered in Tierney's data.
To save your graph just take a picture of your screen - press the 'Alt' key (beside spacebar)and the 'Print Screen' key ( top right of keyboard).
Then open up PowerPoint and paste it into a slide and save as a jpeg. Then you can upload it to your blog.

I created this graph with BJ's data at CREATE A GRAPH.

This site allows you to print or save. It also shows you some other types of graphs you can use to display your data.

HAVE A GO AT GATHERING SOME DATA AMONGST YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND USE ONE OF THESE SITES TO CREATE YOUR GRAPH.

And if you're feeling like a challenge, play this DATA PICKING game.

In this game you click on each person to gather data and add tally marks into a table. The word 'frequency' just means 'how many'.Then you choose the graph that represents your data. The tricky part is that it's not a BAR GRAPH, it's a PIE GRAPH. Want to find out what that is?.....Play the game!

'SURVEY SAYS'...OUR MATHS INVESTIGATIONS

Remember our post about A POLL NEEDS A...

Since then we have been

finding out about ourselves

as a class. We have been
ACTIVE

INVESTIGATORS.

After deciding on a question, we first had to GATHER the DATA.

We RECORDED the data using ticks or tally marks.

We discovered it was a good idea to write down names as well, so that we knew who we had asked.

But at this stage, it wasn't easy to see the RESULTS of our questioning. So.....

we had to be EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS and DISPLAY the DATA.

Some of us chose to DRAW a BAR GRAPH by hand and others chose to produce a BAR GRAPH on the computer by inserting a 'table' into a 'Word' document.

Now it was easy for us to see and INTERPRET the results of our surveys.

Our next step is to post about our learning on our own blogs.
You can access the results of Courtney's, Johanna's and Tierney's investigations by going to the sidebar, finding LABELS and then NUMERACY BLOCK.
All of our results will be posted by early next term, so don't forget to come back and check out the results!

IDENTIFYING OUR INSECT- THE PROCESS

Today we took on the role of ACTIVE INVESTIGATORS to find out just what type of insect our 'visitor' last Friday was.

We got onto the website BRISBANE INSECTS AND SPIDERS. Mrs P, Mrs McD and Mrs R read the information about STICK INSECTS and PRAYING MANTIS for us.

We looked at the pictures and compared them to ours.
Then we left a comment to share our thoughts about what the insect was .
We read all the comments. We tried to work out how many thought it was a STICK INSECT and how many thought it was a PRAYING MANTIS but it was hard because some people had left two comments!

So we decided to make a PICTURE GRAPH to record our DATA.
Each of us drew our face on a small square and glued it on a chart.

Now it was easy to see that most of the class thought our visitor was a PRAYING MANTIS.

We decided to number the squares so that we would not have to count them every time we looked at the graph.

We had to number them all the way to 22!

Now it was REALLY easy to see the results.

22 children in our class think our 'visitor' was a PRAYING MANTIS.

5 children in our class think it's a STICK INSECT.

Does this mean our 'visitor' WAS a PRAYING MANTIS?

WE THINK SO.

But to be sure we have emailed BRISBANE INSECTS AND SPIDERS and asked them to help us identify our insect friend.

DO YOU THINK THEY WILL AGREE WITH US...THAT IT IS A PRAYING MANTIS?

LET US KNOW IN A COMMENT. DON'T FORGET TO TELL US 'WHY?'.