LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 4

Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.

Objective 4.01

Collect, organize, describe and display data using Venn diagrams (three sets) and pictographs where symbols represent multiple units (2's, 5's, 10's).

Resources aligned to this objective

Sorting seeds
This lesson will engage students in manipulating, sorting, counting, and graphing seeds. The students will be involved in the creation of a graph using the computer.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By Mary Jackson.
An integrated lesson comparing the butterfly and frog life cycles
Students will build on their prior knowledge about the butterfly life cycle to compare and contrast the life cycles of butterflies and frogs. Students will locate butterflies on the school grounds and create pictographs and models of fractions to explain their findings mathematically. Students will also use a variety of resources to read about and study the food, space and air needed by butterflies and frogs to grow. They will create visual and written products to demonstrate their findings.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development, Mathematics, and Science)
By Martha Dobson and Margaret Monds.

Resources on the web

What's the Weather?
Students discuss, describe, read, and write about the graphs and the information they contain. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
What's Next?
Students make patterns, read patterns, and find patterns in the environment. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
What do other people want to be?
Sudents graph people's job choices and identify the goods and services each job provides. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Council on Economic Education
Us and Them
Students collect data, generate bar graphs, and compare two data sets. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Up on Top
Posing and answering questions using the graphs provided gives students an opportunity to apply their reasoning and communication skills. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Three in a Set
Students construct sets of three, compare them with sets of two, and write the numeral 3. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Sorting Time
Students sort objects and symbols and make patterns with sorted objects. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Sorting foods
Students visit a website to play a game related to the food pyramid and sort foods using the categories of the food pyramid. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Show and Tell
Students describe their graphs using appropriate vocabulary and to develop skills in posing and responding to questions about their graphs. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Shirts Full of Buttons
Students explore subtraction in the comparative mode by answering questions such as “How many more?” and “How many less?” as they match sets of buttons. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Plenty of Practice
Students construct a bulletin board display that focuses on sums of 9, 10, 11, and 12. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Our Button Box
Students compare objects to identify similarities and differences. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
One, Two, Three--Go
Students compare sets of one, two, and three objects, and then record a set of three in chart form. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Numbers and Me
Students identify and use numbers in a real life setting and interpret survey data. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Naming Rows and Columns
Students learn the difference between rows and columns, how to label and select a title for graphs, and what comparative terms to use to describe relationships between and among the various sets of buttons. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
My Button Is...
Students make use of the properties enumerated in the previous segments of this nine-part unit. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Multiple Patterns
Students explore patterns that involve doubling. They use objects and numbers in their exploration and record them using a table. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
More Patterns
Students extend their knowledge of linear patterns by making patterns on a grid using shapes and other symbols. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Music Education)
Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics