1 - Getting Started ~3 mins
Our fruit survey is finished, and we can show it three ways: a tally, a row of fruit pictures, and a block graph.
Detectives: if all three tell the same story, which one do you think will be easiest to read, and why?
2 - Watch and Notice ~8 mins
Same fruit votes, three different pictures. Watch for the winner each time: longest tally, longest picture row, tallest tower. Do they name the same fruit?
3 - Try It Together ~9 mins
We will turn this tally into a picture row: one picture for every mark.
The tally says apple has 4, banana has 5 and orange has 3.
One pupil builds each fruit row on the board. Everyone else watches and counts the pictures aloud after each row.
Turn the tally into pictures
4 - Write Your Choice in Your Copy ~3 mins
In your maths copy, write which you find easiest to read: tally, pictures or towers.
5 - Class Challenge ~12 mins
Tally: Apple 4, Banana 6, Orange 3.
Build the three towers.
- Find the tallest tower and read its votes
- Find the shortest tower and read its votes
- How many more does the tallest have than the shortest?
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