Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term v5 - Grade 1

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Performance objectives

• Collect and sort data about simple objects.
• Show data using objects and pictograms.
• Answer simple questions about data in pictograms.
• Find patterns in data.
• Revise counting and comparing numbers up to 20.

Lesson summary

Data handling is all about collecting information, organising it, and then making sense of it. Think about all the things you see every day – the different colours of cars on the road, the types of fruits in your lunchbox, or the number of learners who walk to school. Data handling helps us understand these things better by counting them and showing them in a way that's easy to understand. This is important because it helps us make decisions and answer questions about our world. For example, knowing which fruit is most popular can help the school tuckshop decide what to order more of.

Lesson notes

What is Data Handling? Data handling is the process of collecting, organising, representing, and interpreting information (data). It's like being a detective who gathers clues, sorts them out, and then uses them to solve a mystery.

Collecting Data: This means gathering information.

We can do this by: Counting:* Counting how many of something there are.

Asking questions:* Asking people what their favourite colour is, or what type of pet they have.

Observing:* Looking around and noticing things, like the types of birds in your garden.

Sorting Data: After we collect data, we need to sort it. This means putting things into groups that are the same.

We can sort by: Colour:* Grouping all the red objects together, all the blue objects together, etc.

Shape:* Grouping all the circles together, all the squares together, etc.

Type:* Grouping all the fruits together, all the vegetables together, etc.

Representing Data: This means showing our data in a way that's easy to understand.

We can use: Concrete Objects:* Actually using the objects themselves to show the data. For example, if we counted 3 apples, we can put 3 apples in a row.

Pictograms:* A pictogram uses pictures to represent the data. Each picture stands for one or more items.

Interpreting Data: This means understanding what the data tells us.

We can ask questions like: Which group has the most?* Which group has the least?* How many are there in total?*

Worked example

Example 1: Favourite Fruits

Let's say we asked 10 learners in our class what their favourite fruit is.

Here are the results:

Apple: 4 learners

Banana: 3 learners

Orange: 3 learners

Let's represent this using a pictogram:

| Fruit | Number of Learners |

| :------ | :----------------- |

| Apple | 🍎🍎🍎🍎 |

| Banana | 🍌🍌🍌 |

| Orange | 🍊🍊🍊 |