Data Collection and Analysis for Reception: Interactive Learning Quizzes

Question 1

How can we find out how many pets our classmates have?

Accepted Answer

Ask each classmate.

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Ask parents to write a letter.

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Watch classmates during playtime.

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Ask classmates to draw a picture.

Question 2

You have counted the number of apples and oranges in a fruit basket. What should you do next?

Accepted Answer

Write down the numbers in a table

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Put the fruit back in the basket

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Tell your friends the numbers

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Forget about the numbers

Question 3

Which of these questions will help you find out your friends' favourite colours?

Accepted Answer

What colour do you like the most?

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What is your favourite food?

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What is your favourite animal?

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What is your favourite toy?

Question 4

You have counted how many friends like different games. How can you find out which game is the most popular?

Accepted Answer

Count the number of friends who like each game

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Ask your friends which game they like the best

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Guess which game is the most popular

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Do nothing

Question 5

When we count things, we are:

Accepted Answer

Gathering information

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Analyzing information

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Explaining information

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Drawing pictures of information

Question 6

What does a tally line stand for?

Accepted Answer

One thing

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Five things

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Ten things

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One hundred things

Question 7

Which picture shows us the favorite colors of children?

Accepted Answer

A picture with slices like a pizza (Pie chart)

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A picture with bars (Bar graph)

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A picture with a line going up and down (Line graph)

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A picture with dots all over (Scatter plot)

Question 8

In a picture with bars, how do we know how many things there are?

Accepted Answer

By looking at the height of the bars

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By counting the number of bars

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By looking at the color of the bars

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By guessing

Question 9

When we have collected lots of information, we say we have:

Accepted Answer

Data

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A guess

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An opinion

Question 10

What do circle charts show us?

Accepted Answer

How many of each thing there are

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How things change over time

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How different things are connected

Question 11

We want to know which animal is most popular. Look at the picture. Which animal has the most bars?

Accepted Answer

Dog

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Cat

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Fish

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Rabbit

Question 12

We want to find out how many children have brown hair. How do we do this?

Accepted Answer

Count how many children have brown hair

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Ask each child

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Look at a graph

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Guess

Question 13

What is a bar chart, a line graph, or a pie chart?

Accepted Answer

A way to show data in a picture

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A way to show data in numbers

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A type of tree

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A type of animal

Question 14

We want to know how many children like to play football. Look at the tally chart. How do we find out?

Accepted Answer

Count the number of lines

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Count the number of circles

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Look at the numbers

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Guess

Question 15

We want to ask children about their favourite things. Which question should we NOT ask?

Accepted Answer

How old are you?

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What is your favourite colour?

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What is your favourite food?

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Do you like school?

Question 16

What's the best way to find out what people like the most?

Accepted Answer

Asking them

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Watching them

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Playing with them

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Singing with them

Question 17

What do we call the information we get when we ask questions?

Accepted Answer

Results

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Things we hear

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Things we see

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Secrets

Question 18

What can we find out when we think about information?

Accepted Answer

What it tells us

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What will happen

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What others think

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What our pets are

Question 19

We asked our classmates about their favorite toys. Which of these shows us which toys they like the most?

Accepted Answer

A tally chart with the number of votes for each toy

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A list of names and toys

Question 20

Let's say we want to know which ice cream flavor our friends like the most. Which of these ways would NOT help us find out?

Accepted Answer

Make a guess about which flavors our friends like best.

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Ask our friends their favorite flavors.

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Count how many friends choose each flavor.

Question 21

What do we call it when we put our information in a table or chart?

Accepted Answer

Organizing our data

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Getting rid of the data we don't like

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Adding information that we think is missing

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Making our data look pretty

Question 22

What can we use to ask lots of people the same questions?

Accepted Answer

A survey

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A book

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A TV show

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A game

Question 23

Which one of these things can we not measure?

Accepted Answer

How happy you are

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How many toys you have

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How tall you are

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How hot it is outside

Question 24

What picture can we use to show how many toys different children have?

Accepted Answer

A picture with lots of bars

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A picture of a circle divided into pieces

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A picture of a line going up and down

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A picture of two circles overlapping

Question 25

Which picture has the most children playing?

Accepted Answer

Picture B: Five children

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Picture A: Three children

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Picture C: Two children

Question 26

If you want to know how many pets your classmates have, what should you ask them?

Accepted Answer

How many pets do you have?

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How old are you?

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What is your favorite food?

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What is your favorite color?

Question 27

If you want to know what types of pets your classmates have, you should ask:

Accepted Answer

What type of pet do you have?

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What is your favorite color?

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How many pets do you have?

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What is your favorite food?

Question 28

If you want to know how many students have both a cat and a dog, you should ask:

Accepted Answer

Do you have both a cat and a dog?

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How many pets do you have?

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Do you have a pet?

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What type of pet do you have?

Question 29

In the tally chart, which shape was drawn the most times?

Accepted Answer

The triangle shape was drawn 6 times.

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The square shape was drawn 5 times.

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The circle shape was drawn 4 times.

Question 30

What is a good way to collect information?

Accepted Answer

Asking questions

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Taking a guess

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Singing a song

Question 31

What do we do first when we want to make sense of information?

Accepted Answer

Organize it

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Throw it away

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Color it

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Hide it

Question 32

What does a bar graph show?

Accepted Answer

How often something happens

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Where something is

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How big something is

Question 33

What is the difference between asking questions and watching what people do?

Accepted Answer

Asking questions is a survey, while watching is an observation

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Asking questions is for adults, while watching is for children

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Asking questions is written, while watching is spoken

Question 34

Which question is good to ask in a survey?

Accepted Answer

What is your favorite animal?

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What is your phone number?

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What is your address?

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What is your full name?

Question 35

How can we avoid bias in a survey?

Accepted Answer

Ask balanced questions

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Ask personal questions

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Ask leading questions

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Ask difficult questions

Question 36

Which picture has the most apples?

Accepted Answer

Picture with four apples

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Picture with one apple

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Picture with three apples

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Picture with two apples

Question 37

If we ask everyone in the class their favourite colour, how can we show the answers?

Accepted Answer

Draw a picture for each colour.

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Write a story about colours.

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Sing a song about colours.

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Play a game with colours.

Question 38

What do we do with the answers after we ask everyone a question?

Accepted Answer

We look for patterns and learn from the answers.

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We give the answers to someone else.

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We throw the answers away.

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We keep the answers in a box.

Question 39

How can we find out what our friends like to eat for lunch?

Accepted Answer

Ask them what they like to eat.

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Watch a cooking show.

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Read a book about food.

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Guess what they like.

Question 40

Sarah saw three red cars and two blue cars. Which picture shows all the cars Sarah saw?

Accepted Answer

Image with five cars (3 red + 2 blue)

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Image with three cars

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Image with one car

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Image with two cars

Question 41

How can we find out which fruit is the most popular in our class?

Accepted Answer

Ask everyone their favourite fruit and count the answers.

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Look at the fruits in the lunchboxes today.

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Guess which fruit everyone likes best.

Question 42

Look at the chart. Which animal did the most children see?

Accepted Answer

Image of the tallest bar on a bar chart representing an animal

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Image of the shortest bar on the chart

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Image of a bar in the middle of the chart

Question 43

We are counting how many times we clap our hands. What's a good way to keep track?

Accepted Answer

Use counting blocks and add one for each clap.

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Clap very loudly so everyone can hear.

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Ask a friend to guess how many times you clapped.

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Close your eyes and count in your head.

Question 44

The teacher asked everyone what pet they have. The answers were: cat, cat, dog, fish, cat, dog, cat. Which pet do most children have?

Accepted Answer

Cat

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Fish

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Bird

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Dog

Question 45

We want to know what colour socks everyone is wearing. What question should we ask?

Accepted Answer

What colour are your socks?

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How many socks are you wearing?

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Do you like your socks?

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Where did you get your socks?

Question 46

Look at the picture of the toys. Which toy is there the least of?

Accepted Answer

Image of the toy with the smallest quantity

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Image of a toy with a quantity close to the smallest

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Image of the toy with the largest quantity

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Image of a toy with a medium quantity

Question 47

We are sorting objects into groups by colour. Where should we put the green ball?

Accepted Answer

In the group with the other green objects.

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In the group with the blue objects.

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Anywhere, it doesn't matter.

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In a group by itself.

Question 48

The picture shows how many teddy bears each child has. Who has the most teddy bears?

Accepted Answer

Image of a child with the most teddy bears

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Image of a child with the least teddy bears

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Image of a child with a medium number of teddy bears

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Image of a child with a number of teddy bears close to the highest

Question 49

We want to see what happens when we roll a ball down a ramp. What should we do after each roll?

Accepted Answer

Mark where the ball stopped on the floor.

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Roll a different toy down the ramp.

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Change the height of the ramp.

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Guess where the ball will stop next time.