Five pages about collecting data, from asking the right question to organizing the answers. Page 1 starts with two worked examples, then students read ten questions and circle Needs data (you have to collect many answers or counts) or One answer (you can just look at it or already know it). Page 2 shows three ways to get data: ask people, watch and count, or look it up in a record such as a calendar or a chart, and students choose the way for nine questions. On page 3 a class answered "How do you get to school?" on 25 cards in six groups: students tally the cards, write the totals, check that they add up to 25, and answer most, fewest, how many more and how many in all. Page 4 is a library checkout list of 30 books, each with a sticker for its kind (eight kinds, from animals and space to jokes and cooking): students find the data in the list, build a frequency table that adds up to 30, and answer one-step and two-step questions such as how many more animal and space books than sports books. Page 5 has students write a survey question and four answer choices about choosing a class pet, ask 10 classmates and tally the answers, and write a question of their own that a finished table of garden bugs can answer.
Before page 1, ask the class two questions out loud: "What color is our door?" and "What is our favorite recess game?" Talk about why one has a single answer and the other needs everyone to answer. For page 3, show how to check off each card as it is tallied so no card is counted twice. Give students time to walk around for page 5 and ask 10 classmates their own question, then share a few of the questions they wrote for the bug table.
Ask everyone at home a survey question, such as their favorite fruit or dinner, and keep a tally. Count something out a window for five minutes, like cars, birds or people walking dogs. Look at a calendar together and count how many days had a special event this month: that is data you look up in a record.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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A 5-page data collection pack for 2nd and 3rd grade. Decide which questions need data and which have one answer, choose how to get the data (ask people, watch and count, or look it up in a record), tally 25 survey answers about getting to school into a frequency table, find the data for 30 library books in 8 kinds in a checkout list, and write a survey question of your own, collect answers from 10 classmates and write a question a finished table can answer. Every page comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys included.
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