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Days of the week survey
Complete a survey on days of the week and display the results in a graph, for example 'which is your busiest day?', 'which is for favourite day?' or 'which day do you get pocket money?'.
Discussion points
- What is the total of Monday and Tuesday?
- Why do you think ___ is the busiest day?
- Which day is your least busy?
- How many more people are busy on ___ than ___?
- How many fewer people are busy on ___ than ___?
- What is the difference between A and B?
- What is the sum of A, B and C?
- What does the data tell us?
- How many more people are busy on ___ than ___?
- How many fewer people are busy on ___ than ___?
- What is the difference between A and B?
- What is the sum of A, B and C?
- What does the data tell us?
- What is the mean score?
Teaching tips:
Before completing the graph, spend time talking about the days of the week or ‘Ordering - Days of the week’ to make sure children have a good understanding of which days are school days/weekend days/sports or club days etc for them.
Maths: After asking children their answers, spend time interpreting the graph (see discussion points).
Maths: After asking children their answers, spend time interpreting the graph (see discussion points).
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.
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.
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