Data Handling for Year 1 Maths: Learn to Collect and Represent Data

Question 1

What does each line on a tally chart stand for?

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One thing

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Five things

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Ten things

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Twenty things

Question 2

You have two tally charts showing the favorite colors of two different groups of students. How can you find out which color is the most popular overall?

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Count the tallies for each color in both charts and add them together.

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Look at the color with the most tallies in each chart.

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Draw a block graph and compare the heights of the bars.

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Use a Venn diagram to show the overlap.

Question 3

Which of these shows how many children like each fruit?

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A tally chart

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A graph

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A list

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A book

Question 4

Look at this tally chart: 
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Apples: 5
Bananas: 2
Which fruit is the most popular?

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Apples

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Bananas

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Both are the same

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I don't know

Question 5

How can we find out which fruits children like the most?

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By asking them

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By counting the fruit trees in the playground

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By guessing

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By looking at the rubbish bin

Question 6

What does this symbol mean: |

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One thing

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Five things

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Ten things

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It's not a tally mark

Question 7

In a tally chart, what should we do after every 5 tally marks?

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Draw a diagonal line through the tallies.

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Use a different color for each tally mark.

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Write the number 5 next to the tally marks.

Question 8

What does a tally chart help us to count?

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The number of things in a group

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The average of a group of numbers

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The smallest number in a group

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None of these

Question 9

How would you find out how many students in our class have brown hair?

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Count the students with brown hair

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Draw a picture of some hair

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Write down the names of students with brown hair

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Take a photograph of the students

Question 10

Which of these graphs shows how something changes over time?

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Line graph

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Pictogram

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Bar chart

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Pie chart

Question 11

Which of these is NOT a way to show information in a way that's easy to understand?

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Writing a story

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A picture graph

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A tally chart

Question 12

Which of these tally charts shows the most popular animal?

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Question 13

What is the difference between a tally chart and a pictogram?

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A tally chart uses marks, while a pictogram uses pictures.

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A pictogram uses marks, while a tally chart uses pictures.

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There is no difference between a tally chart and a pictogram.

Question 14

What is the best way to make sure your tally chart is accurate?

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Make sure each mark represents one piece of data

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Use different colors for each mark

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Draw the tally marks very small

Question 15

Why do we collect data?

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To find out information

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To make a graph

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To have something to do

Question 16

Why is it important to organize your data before making a graph?

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To make it easier to read

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To finish it quickly

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To make your teacher happy

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Because it's fun

Question 17

We want to find out which fruit is the most popular in our class. What is the best way to collect this information?

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Ask everyone in the class.

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Ask the person sitting next to you.

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Guess which fruit is most popular.

Question 18

Which of these is NOT a way to show data?

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Writing a story

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Pictograms

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Tally charts

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Block graphs

Question 19

Which of these ways helps us find the number that appears the most in a list of numbers?

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Mode

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Mean

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Median

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Range

Question 20

Which graph uses small pictures to represent each piece of data?

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Pictogram

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Block graph

Question 21

What does the height of a bar in a block graph tell you?

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How often the data appears

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What the data is about

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What type of data it is

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Which category the data belongs to

Question 22

You have a graph showing how many apples you ate each day last week. How can you use this to find a good number of apples to eat each day next week?

Accepted Answer

Add up all the apples eaten in a week and divide by 7

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Choose the highest number of apples eaten on any day

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Look at the shape of the graph to guess

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Subtract the lowest number from the highest number

Question 23

When we want to be sure the information people give us is correct, what should we do?

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Double-check their answers

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Ask them to tell us the truth

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Only ask questions that we know the answers to

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Ignore any answers that we don't understand

Question 24

What does a tally chart show?

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How many times something happens

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The largest and smallest values

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The average of a set of data

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The most repeated value

Question 25

What is one way to use data?

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Make choices

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Draw pictures

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Sing songs

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Play games

Question 26

What is the purpose of a pictogram?

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To show data using pictures

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To show data using words

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To show data using lines

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To show data using numbers

Question 27

What does a range of data show?

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The difference between the biggest and smallest values

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The average of the values

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The most frequently occurring value

Question 28

Which of these is NOT a way to show data?

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Using a story

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Using a table

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Using a chart

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Using a graph

Question 29

What is the first step in collecting data?

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Decide what information you want to find out

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Show the data

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Use the data

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Collect the data

Question 30

A survey asked children about their favourite animals. The results were: 5 children like cats, 3 children like dogs, and 2 children like rabbits. Which pictogram correctly shows this data?

Accepted Answer

A picture of a cat with 5 blocks, a picture of a dog with 3 blocks, and a picture of a rabbit with 2 blocks.

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A picture of a cat with 3 blocks, a picture of a dog with 5 blocks, and a picture of a rabbit with 2 blocks.

Question 31

Which of these is a way to collect data?

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Asking people questions

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Watching a movie

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Reading a book

Question 32

A teacher asked students to write down how many hours of sleep they got last night. The results were: 8 hours, 9 hours, 7 hours, 8 hours, 9 hours, 10 hours, 8 hours, 7 hours. What is the most common number of hours of sleep?

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8 hours

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7 hours

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10 hours

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9 hours

Question 33

A shop sold 10 apples, 5 bananas, and 7 oranges. Which of these block graphs correctly shows this data?

Accepted Answer

A block graph with 10 blocks for apples, 5 blocks for bananas, and 7 blocks for oranges.

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A block graph with 5 blocks for apples, 10 blocks for bananas, and 7 blocks for oranges.

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A block graph with 7 blocks for apples, 5 blocks for bananas, and 10 blocks for oranges.

Question 34

Which of these is a way to make data easier to understand?

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Representing it in a graph or chart

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Hiding it

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Ignoring it

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Destroying it

Question 35

Which of these is a way to collect data from a large number of people?

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Using a questionnaire

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Making it up

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Guessing

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Asking each person individually

Question 36

A farmer has 12 sheep, 8 cows, and 5 pigs. Which of these pictograms correctly shows this data?

Accepted Answer

A picture of a sheep with 12 blocks, a picture of a cow with 8 blocks, and a picture of a pig with 5 blocks.

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A picture of a sheep with 8 blocks, a picture of a cow with 12 blocks, and a picture of a pig with 5 blocks.

Question 37

How can we find out what people like best?

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Asking them questions

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Watching a movie

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Guessing

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Reading a book

Question 38

What is a pictogram?

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A picture that shows us how many of something there are

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A table

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A pie chart

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A bar graph

Question 39

What does a tally chart help us do?

Accepted Answer

Count how many of something there are

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Work out the average

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See how much something changes

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Find the most common thing

Question 40

What does the length of a bar in a block graph tell us?

Accepted Answer

How many of something there are

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The biggest difference

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The average number

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The most common thing

Question 41

What do we NOT do when we look at data?

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Ignore what the data shows

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Say what we think the data means

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Look for patterns

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Guess what might happen

Question 42

What does the mode tell us about data?

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The thing that happens most often

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The average number

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The biggest difference

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The middle number

Question 43

What is a data summary?

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A short way of telling us what the data is about

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An explanation of the data

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A way to collect the data

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All the details of the data