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Data
Analysis and Probability Standard for Grades
Pre-K–2
Formulate
questions that can be addressed with data and
collect, organize, and display relevant data
to answer them
• pose questions and gather data about themselves and their surroundings;
• sort and classify objects according to their attributes and organize
data about the objects;
• represent data using concrete objects, pictures, and graphs.
Select
and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze
data
• describe parts of the data and the set of data as a whole to determine
what the data show.
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Download
the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet Pet
Survey.
1. Pose the Question: How many many pets do you own?
2. Gather the information.
3. Type the amounts next to the animal names in the blue
boxes.
4. Watch the bar graph grow.
5. Write a story about the number of pets your friends
own.
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Step
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Use
these interactive Websites to practice graphing
skills.
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Using
Pictograms
Create
a pictogram. What is your favorite
farm animal?
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National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Create
a bar graph. What is your favorite
season of the year?
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Scott
Forseman eTools
Survey
the the teachers about the color of
car they own. Create a bar graph.
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