1 - Getting Started ~3 mins
Today our question is: what is your favourite playground game, Tag, Skipping or Football? We will take that question all the way to a graph.
2 - Our Class Vote ~5 mins
Hands up to vote. We mark one tally for each vote: Tag, Skipping or Football.
Our favourite playground game
3 - Watch and Notice ~7 mins
A data journey is how we go from a question to an answer. The four steps are ask, tally, towers, then read.
First journey: favourite playground game. Here is the tally.
Each tally mark becomes one block. Seven Tag tallies become seven blocks.
Same four steps, new question: how we travel to school.
4 - Try It Together ~8 mins
The tally is done. Your job is the towers. One pupil drags; everyone else counts the blocks aloud until each tower matches its tally row.
5 - Class Challenge ~8 mins
Now we prove we can read a graph. We will do one job at a time: build, then find the tallest and read its votes, then count the gap.
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