Mathematics

Intermediate

50 mins

Teacher/Student led

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Pictograms, One Symbol Means One

Build and read pictograms where one symbol represents one item. Learn to line rows up fairly so you can compare totals and find differences between categories.

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1 Getting Started
2 Watch and Notice
3 Try It Together
4 Draw the Key in Your Copy
5 Class Challenge
6 What Did We Notice?
7 What's Next
Pupil practice

1 - Getting Started ~4 mins

Illustration for Getting Started Look at this tally of our class's favourite school lunch, and look at this one apple picture beside it. If one apple picture means one pupil, how many apple pictures will the most popular lunch need?

Tip

Have a guess before we count.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Watch and Notice ~9 mins

Look at these pictograms, one row at a time. Each picture stands for exactly one pupil, so a longer row means more pupils chose it. Count the pictures in each row.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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3 - Try It Together ~14 mins

Let's build a pictogram from our own class data, putting the right number of pictures in each row. One picture means one pupil.

Key point

We will check each row by counting the pictures and matching them to the number that voted.

Build our class pictogram

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4 - Draw the Key in Your Copy ~3 mins

COPYBOOK MOMENT

In your maths copy, draw a simple symbol key at the top: one picture, then = 1 pupil. Choose any easy picture to draw, like a small circle or a smiley face.

Then draw the rows for two categories from our class data, using that same picture. Keep both rows starting from the same line.

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5 - Class Challenge ~10 mins

Now let's read some pictograms together. Each picture still means one pupil. For each chart I'll ask you something different — how many are in a row, which row has the most, how many there are altogether, and how many more one row has than another.

Watch out

Before you compare two rows, check that both rows start at the same line.

Read the pictograms

+15 XP

Pupil practice

Module 9 · Data and Chance Data & Chance

Lesson 103 · Pictograms, One Symbol Means One

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