Today we are going to run a real survey on our own class, start to finish. Here is our question for today: what is your favourite playground game?

Watch how the same class survey becomes two things: first a tally, then a bar chart. On the tally, notice the gate-marks — every fifth mark is a bar drawn across the other four, so we can read totals fast. On the chart, notice that each bar's height is that category's count.

Now we collect our own data live, all together on the board. Your job this time is to follow along and answer aloud — you write nothing yet, that comes next. We tally the class answers to favourite playground game — Chasing, Football, Skipping, Handball — one row at a time. When the tally is full, we read off the totals and say which game won.

Here is the same idea taken one step further. Two classes, 6A and 6B, were asked their favourite lunch. This chart shows two bars for each lunch, one for each class, and the colour key tells you which is which. It is just like our own survey, only comparing two classes side by side. Which lunch won in each class? Let's read it off the board together.