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Learn about the importance of sorting and how to help children sort things by multiple attributes.

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How to Count Many Objects? | Data Handling | Maths Concept for Kids | Periwinkle

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Sorting Objects By Material Game | Game | Education.com

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In this sorting game, kids must sort items into different backpacks, based on the material each item is made with: brick, straw or sticks.

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Young children instinctually notice attributes: shape, size, color, length, type, and other characteristics of objects. They also notice that items can have attributes in common (these are all red) and not in common (these are all red but those are all blue). With practice, children are able to sort collections of objects by one attribute, like color, and then by two or more attributes. For example, they can sort the items that are large, red squares from the items that are large, red triangles. Help children think flexibly about their sorting! After they sort according to an attribute, or sorting rule, ask, "Can you think of another way that we could sort these items? If we sorted these items in a different way, would we get the same results?"

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Sorting and Attributes - Young Mathematicians

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Young children instinctually notice attributes: shape, size, color, length, type, and other characteristics of objects. They also notice that items can have attributes in common (these are all red) and not in common (these are all red but those are all blue).

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Data talks are short 5-10 minute classroom discussions to help students develop data literacy. This pedagogical strategy is similar in structure to a number talk, but instead of numbers students are shown a data visual and asked what interests them. In a data talk the teacher does not have to be an expert in the topic of the data visualization - if a student asks a question, you can say that you do not know the answer but would love to find out, together! This a nice opportunity to model not knowing, and embracing uncertainty. Data talks are intended to pique students' curiosity and encourage question asking, and to help them understand and "read" the data-filled world in which they live.

On this page, you can download a paper explaining what a data talk is, then try one or more of the data talks below with your students. To learn more about data talks and the importance of Data Science, we recommend our latest online course, 21st Century Teaching and Learning, our data science lessons for grades 6-10, and our data science picture book.

The New York Times, in association with the American Statistical Association, ASA - shares weekly graphs that are also great sources for data talks. For more information go to What's Going on in this Graph.

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Data talks are short 5-10 minute classroom discussions to help students develop data literacy. This pedagogical strategy is similar in structure to a number talk, but instead of numbers students are shown a data visual and asked what interests them.

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Play educational games, watch videos, and print coloring pages with Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, and more!

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Counting, Ordering, Comparing

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ABCya! • Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, & Comparing Game for Kids

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Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre K & Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing.

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Bar Charts

Scan to open this game on a mobile device. Right-click to copy and paste it onto a homework sheet.

Game Objectives

New Maths Curriculum: Year 3: Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables Year 3: Solve one-step and two-step questions such as 'How many more?' and 'How many fewer?' using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables Year 4: Interpret and present discrete data using bar charts and continuous data using line graphs KS2 Primary Framework: Year 3: Answer a question by collecting, organising and interpreting data; use tally charts, frequency tables, pictograms and bar charts to represent results and illustrate observations; use ICT to create a simple bar chart Year 4: Answer a question by identifying what data to collect; organise, present, analyse and interpret the data in tables, diagrams, tally charts, pictograms and bar charts, using ICT where appropriate Year 5: Interpret a reading that lies between two unnumbered divisions on a scale Year 6: Construct and interpret frequency tables, bar charts with grouped discrete data, and line graphs; interpret pie charts

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Interpret data using bar charts. A number of different levels available.

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Graphs, maps and charts from The Times -- and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

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Pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value! How much more? (Includes a follow-up task about calculating how much it costs to make a dollar's worth of each coin) Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.

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Pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value! How much more? (Includes a follow-up task about calculating how much it costs to make a dollar's worth of each coin) Click to access the slide deck, and learn more about math & content connections.

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This activity will help students make the transition from one-variable representations (e.g., number lines) to the TWO-variable representation of the coordinate plane. Students will watch 15-second videos and translate them into graphs with your help. Special thanks to Adam Poetzel (@adampoetzel) for his videos. (Used under CC-BY license.)

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25 Creative Graphing Activities Kids Will Enjoy - Teaching Expertise

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The importance of graphing is sometimes underestimated in schools. Starting from a young age, graphing should be at the top of your list. It is a way to give children a different perspective of looking at numbers and teach them the skills to quickly organize, compare and discuss different ideas and information. Thankfully, there are many creative graphing activities available to teachers and parents! We've provided a list of 25 different kinds of graphing activities that your students will love!

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25 Creative Graphing Activities Kids Will Enjoy - Teaching Expertise

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The importance of graphing is sometimes underestimated in schools. Starting from a young age, graphing should be at the top of your list. It is a way to give children a different perspective of looking at numbers and teach them the skills to quickly organize, compare and discuss different ideas and information.

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This page lists all the games available on the Data Games website. Data Games are embedded in CODAP.

Teacher resources for the games are available here.

Send rats on a dive to find sunken treasure. NOTE: Requires Flash.

Fire up a chainsaw and see how many logs you can cut to the right length. NOTE: Requires Flash.

Can you beat a conservative statistician at his own game by making good guesses from samples? NOTE: Requires Flash.

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a product of This page lists all the games available on the Data Games website. Data Games are embedded in CODAP. Teacher resources for the games are available here. Send rats on a dive to find sunken treasure. NOTE: Requires Flash. Fire up a chainsaw and see how many logs you can cut to the right length.

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CODAP - Common Online Data Analysis Platform

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CODAP - Common Online Data Analysis Platform

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CODAP is free educational software for data analysis. This web-based data science tool is designed as a platform for developers and as an application for students in grades 6-14. Try CODAP CODAP is easy to use and runs in your web browser. CODAP is (and always will be) free.

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Counting with tally marks or tallies, Kinder, 1st, 2nd grades math video

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Counting with tally marks (or tallies) math lesson - http://www.kidsmathtv.com/ - Math video tutorial on counting with the aid of tallies (or tally marks). Suitable math video lesson for kids in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. This is a basic introduction to representing data on graphs and pictographs.

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Join our audience of 250,000+ visual thinkers and data-driven professionals. Our free visual newsletter covers business, tech and society in less than 5 mins.

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Learn about the importance of talking about data with children and how to lead a productive “data talk.”

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The way we ask research questions shape the data collected—learn how to frame the investigation by asking interesting research questions.

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Same But Different is a powerful routine for use in math classrooms. The images can be used for teaching a way of thinking: grayscale thinking, categorical thinking; helping students to build a network of ideas and an approach for learning and thinking about mathematics.

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Find three interesting shapes or objects and take turns coming up with reasons why one of them doesn’t belong. Try to find as many “right answers” as possible! This is a great game to help kids develop their vocabulary, knowledge of shapes, and to practice giving precise descriptions with evidence.
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The Young Mathematicians project at EDC has developed 50+ math games for children ages 3-6! Why Math? Research shows that early math skills strongly predict later academic success. Why Math Games? The best way to build early math skills is for young children to talk about and play with math. Our games help families and teachers engage children in problem-solving and puzzling. Kids learn key math strategies as they have fun. 
 
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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

Which One Doesn't Belong?

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This is Which One Doesn't Belong?, a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different, correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. Enjoy!

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Improve math literacy in the classroom with Kelly Turner's Graph of the Week

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Data talks are short 5-10 minute classroom discussions to help students develop data literacy. This pedagogical strategy is similar in structure to a number talk, but instead of numbers students are shown a data visual and asked what interests them. In a data talk the teacher does not have to be an…

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GraphFree: Free Online Graphing Calculator