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How I get to school
Complete a survey on transport methods and display the results in a graph.
Discussion points
- Which has the most scores?
- Which has the fewest scores?
- How would you like to get to school?
- Which is the most common way of getting to school?
- Which is the least common way of getting to school?
- What is the total of arriving by car and walking?
- Which methods are better for the environment?
- How did you gather the data?
- How many more children arrive by ___ than by ___?
- How many fewer children arrive by ___ than by ___?
- What is the difference between A and B?
- What is the sum of columns A, B and C?
- What does the data tell us?
- How did you gather the data?
- How many more children arrive by ___ than by ___?
- How many fewer children arrive by ___ than by ___?
- What is the difference between A and B?
- What is the sum of columns 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.
Understanding the world: Children could follow this using ‘Road safety poster’ or write about a crossing warden in ‘People who help us’.
Using the graph in maths encourages children to count and compare numbers and objects.
Understanding the world: Children could follow this using ‘Road safety poster’ or write about a crossing warden in ‘People who help us’.
Maths: After filling in the data, spend time interpreting the graph (see discussion points).
Children could choose more than one mode of transport if they alternate between 2 or more. This will allow children to interpret more data.
Encourage children to ‘Walk, don't drive to school’ by designing a poster. Alternatively, use as part of road safety and design a ‘Road safety poster’.
Children could choose more than one mode of transport if they alternate between 2 or more. This will allow children to interpret more data.
Encourage children to ‘Walk, don't drive to school’ by designing a poster. Alternatively, use as part of road safety and design a ‘Road safety poster’.
Maths: 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 scores 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 scores 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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