Visualising data

Visualising Class data

Teaching approach. The lesson offers the opportunity to explore measurement, relationships between measurement, and ways to visualise and summarise this data. The use of ICT⁽ⁱ⁾ allows the teacher to enter data and for pupils to immediately see the impact this has on the pie chart and frequency tables (which are automatically updated). This also allows the teacher to change the 'range' for the frequency counts, and discuss with pupils the impact of this on the pie chart, and whether this is a good representation - encouraging the use of mathematical language^(ta) and scientific method^(ta) throughout. In collecting the data pupils have opportunity for some self-directed group work^(ta) - to measure various lengths as described below - and the teacher could use whole class^(ta) questions^(ta) to explore the strategies taken to conduct this investigation^(ta).

Resource details
Title	Visualising class data
Topic	[[Topics/Graph|Graph]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Investigation|Investigation]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Questioning|Questioning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Whole class|Whole class]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Language|Language]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Group work|Group work]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Scientific method|Scientific method]]
Subject	[[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/Primary|Primary]],  [[Resources/KS1|KS1]]

• Activity Outine: Visualising data/activity
• Template File:Class Data Set.xls in excel at moment, tallys working, no graphs (see note below)
• Now working in ODS format File:Class Data Set.ods
• Note to self LOCK CELLS - Not done yet, and not sure if we wnat to, the aim would be to lock tally cells and leave rest open.
• Note: Based on class size of 30 (is this sensible?) and teachers and should know how t