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Partner Problem

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A Pictograph is a way of showing data using images.

Each image stands for a certain number of things.

Example: Apples Sold

Here is a pictograph of how many apples were sold at the local shop over 4 months:

Note that each picture of an apple means 10 apples (and the half-apple picture means 5 apples).

So the pictograph is showing:

In January 10 apples were sold

In February 40 apples were sold

In March 25 apples were sold

In April 20 apples were sold

It is a fun and interesting way to show data.

But it is not very accurate: in the example above we can't show just 1 apple sold, or 2 apples sold etc.

Pictographs can also be vertical, like this:

Example: Games Played

Four friends play a lot of tennis. Here is how many games they played this year:

Each tennis ball means 20 games played. A tennis ball can be cut to show part of 20.

So the pictograph is showing:

Can you see that Alex played 55 games?

Why don't you try to make your own pictographs? Here are a few ideas:

How much money you have (week by week)

How much exercise you get (each day)

How many hours you play games every week

How much water you drink

How far your friends travel every day

How many goals your team makes

Have fun making pictures for each!

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A Pictograph is a way of showing data using images. Each image stands for a certain number of things. Here is a pictograph of how many apples were sold at the local shop over 4 months: Note that each picture of an apple means 10 apples (and the half-apple picture means 5 apples).

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Partner Problem - Comparing Numbers - Chocolate Coins

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So you have just Conducted a Survey and want to
show your results in the best possible way?
Here are some suggestions:
Tables

Sometimes, you can simply report the information in a table.

A table is a very simple way to show others the results. A table should have a title, so those looking at it understand what it shows:

Statistics

You can also summarize the results using statistics, such as Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation and Quartiles

Example: you have lots of information about how long it takes people to get to school but it may be simpler just to present a summary such as:
Shortest Journey: 3 minutes
Average Journey: 22 minutes
Longest Journey: 58 minutes
Graphs

But nothing makes a report look better than a nice graph or chart
There are many different types of graphs. Three of the most common are:
Line Graph - shows information that is somehow connected (such as change over time):

Bar Graph - shows relative sizes of different results:

Pie Chart - shows sizes as part of a whole (good for showing percentages):

Dot Plot - shows data using dots:

You can create graphs like those using our Data Graphs (Bar, Line, Pie and Dot) page

People's Comments

If people have given their opinions or comments in the survey, you can present the more interesting ones:

Example: In response to the question "How can we best clean up the river?" we received these interesting replies:

"The government has a special fund for this"

"The local gardening group has seedlings you could plant"

Report

Put it all together into a report, with a nice introduction, and conclusions at the end, and you are done!

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So you have just Conducted a Survey and want to show your results in the best possible way? Here are some suggestions: Sometimes, you can simply report the information in a table. A table is a very simple way to show others the results.

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Survey Says ...

Turn on the television, radio or open a newspaper and you will often see the results from a survey.

Gathering information is an important way to help people make decisions about topics of interest.

Surveys can help decide what needs changing, where money should be spent, what products to buy, what problems there might be, or lots of other questions you may have at any time.

The best part about surveys is that they can be used to answer any question about any topic.

You can survey people (through questionnaires, opinion polls, etc) or things (like pollution levels in a river, or traffic flow).

Four Steps

Here are four steps to a successful survey:

Step one: create the questions

Step two: ask the questions

Step three: tally the results

Step four: present the results

Let us look at those steps in more detail ...

Step One: Create the Questions

The first thing is to decide is

What questions do you want answered?

Sometimes these may be simple questions like:

"What is your favorite color?"

Other times the questions may be quite complex such as:

"Which roads have the worst traffic conditions?"

Simple Surveys

When doing a simple survey, you can use tally marks to show each person's answer:

Sometimes, it is helpful to be creative in how the people can respond. It makes it more fun for both you and your respondents (the people answering the question).

Example:What is your favorite color?

Have them write down their favorite color on a piece of paper and drop it in a fish bowl.

Then, put all of the pieces of paper into piles and count them.

Step Two: Asking The Questions

Now you have your questions, go out and ask them! But who to ask?

If you survey a small group you can ask everybody (called a Census)

If you want to survey a large group, you may not be able to ask everybody so you should ask a sample of the population (called a Sample)

When you are sampling you should be careful who you ask.

To be a good sample, each person should be chosen randomly

If you only ask people who look friendly, you will only know what friendly people think!

If you go to the swimming pool and ask people "Can you swim?" you will get a biased answer ... maybe even 100% will say "Yes"

And the surveys where people are asked to respond are not very accurate, because only certain types of people take the time to answer.

So be careful not to bias your survey. Try to choose randomly.

Example: You want to know the favorite colors for people at your school, but don't have the time to ask everyone.

Solution: Choose 50 people at random:

stand at the gate and choose "the next person to arrive" each time

or choose people randomly from a list and then go and find them!

or you could choose every 5th person

Your results will hopefully be nearly as good as if you asked everyone.

If you choose a person and they do not want to answer, record "no answer" on the survey form and mention how many people did not answer in your report.

After completing a sampling survey you can use the information to make a prediction as to how the rest of the population might respond.

And your results are better when you ask more people.

Example: nationwide opinion polls survey up to 2,000 people, and the results are nearly as good (within about 1%) as asking everyone.

But they sometimes get voting wrong, because people change their mind when actually voting.

In the same way the opinion "yes I would buy this product" may not mean they actually will buy it.

Step Three: Tally the Results

Now you have finished asking questions it is time to tally the results.

By "tally" I mean add up. This usually involves lots of paperwork and computer work (spreadsheets are useful!)

Example: For "favorite colors of my class" you can simply write tally marks like this (every fifth mark crosses the previous 4 marks, so you can easily see groups of 5):

Step Four: Presenting the Results

Now you have your results, you will want to show them to other people in the best possible way.

We have written a special page called Showing the Results of a Survey, but here is a quick summary:

Tables

Sometimes, you can simply report the information in a table.

A table is a very simple way to show others the results. A table should have a title, so those looking at it understand what results the table shows:

Statistics

You can also summarize the results using statistics, such as mean or standard deviation

Example: you have lots of information about how long it takes people to get to school but it may be simpler just to present a summary such as:
Shortest Journey: 3 minutes
Average Journey: 22 minutes
Longest Journey: 58 minutes
Graphs

But nothing makes a report look better than a nice graph or chart.

Use Data Graphs (Bar, Line and Pie) to make them.

Example Survey Question: What is your favorite color?
Have fun asking questions!!!!!

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Data Graphs (Bar, Line, Dot, Pie, Histogram)

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Make a Bar Graph, Line Graph, Pie Chart, Dot Plot or Histogram, then Print or Save. Enter values (and labels) separated by commas, your results…

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Math is Fun

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Line Graph: a graph that shows information connected in some way (usually as it changes over time).

You record the temperature outside your house and get these results:

You are interested to see how it rises and falls, so decide to make a line graph:

It makes the data come alive, right?
You can see how much it cooled down after lunch.

Making Line Graphs

You can create graphs like that using the Data Graphs (Bar, Line and Pie) page.

Or you can draw it yourself!

Example: Ice Cream Sales

Let's make the vertical scale go from $0 to $800, with tick marks every $200

Draw a vertical scale with tick marks

Label the tick marks, and give the scale a label

Draw a horizontal scale with tick marks and labels

Put a dot for each data value

Connect the dots and give the graph a title

Important! Make sure to have:

A Title

Vertical scale with tick marks and labels

Horizontal scale with tick marks and labels

Data points connected by lines

683, 684, 1430, 1431, 1432, 2151, 2152, 2153, 3770, 3771

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A Bar Graph (also called Bar Chart) is a graphical display of data using bars of different heights.

Imagine you just did a survey of your friends to find which kind of movie they liked best:

We can show that on a bar graph like this:

It is a really good way to show relative sizes: we can see which types of movie are most liked, and which are least liked, at a glance.

We can use bar graphs to show the relative sizes of many things, such as what type of car people have, how many customers a shop has on different days and so on.

Example: Nicest Fruit

A survey of 145 people asked them "Which is the nicest fruit?":

And here is the bar graph:

That group of people think Blueberries are the nicest.

Bar Graphs can also be Horizontal, like this:

Example: Student Grades

In a recent test, this many students got these grades:

And here is the bar graph:

You can create graphs like that using our Data Graphs (Bar, Line, Dot, Pie, Histogram) page.

Histograms vs Bar Graphs

Bar Graphs are good when your data is in categories (such as "Comedy", "Drama", etc).

But when you have continuous data(such as a person's height) then use a Histogram.

It is best to leave gaps between the bars of a Bar Graph, so it doesn't look like a Histogram.

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A Bar Graph (also called Bar Chart) is a graphical display of data using bars of different heights. Imagine you just did a survey of your friends to find which kind of movie they liked best: We can show that on a bar graph like this: It is a really good way to show relative sizes: we can see which types of movie are most liked, and which are least liked, at a glance.

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Bar Graphs for 2nd Grade Kids - Create your own Bar Graph

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Reading & Understanding Graphs

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How to make a simple bar graph or Historgram for children.

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How to Make Pictographs & Bar Graphs.pdf

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Creating a Survey and Conducting a Survey

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Creating a Survey and Conducting a Survey

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Free data handling activities for children including making bar charts, tally chart activities and pictograms.

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Math Data Game for Kids

Learn about tables, charts, graphs, frequency and more with this math data game for kids.

Survey different children and find out their favorite hobby, is it football, dancing, reading or painting? Make a frequency table by recording the data and tallying the results into totals. Turn you chart into a bar graph, analyze the results and enjoy this fun math game that's perfect for kids.

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Math Data Game for Kids - Learn about Tables, Charts, Graph, Frequency

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Math Data Game for Kids Learn about tables, charts, graphs, frequency and more with this math data game for kids. Survey different children and find out their favorite hobby, is it football, dancing, reading or painting? Make a frequency table by recording the data and tallying the results into totals.

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Cyberchase . Games . Bugs in the System | PBS KIDS

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Play with data -- make a graph by catching bugs!

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Creating and interpreting a bar graph has never been so much fun! In this educational game, kids will create a bar graph by sorting the Fuzz Bugs. Next, they will interpret the graph by answering a series of questions about color, orientation… and more!

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ABCya! * Fuzz Bugs: Creating and Interpreting a Bar Graph

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Graphing Games | Online Math Games | Turtle Diary

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Turtle Diary's interactive graphing games help kids understand the importance of graphs, and how to use them. Kids will learn data sorting and data easily.

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Graph and Tally - Graphing Game | Turtle Diary

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Graph and Tally is a comprehensive lesson and game that teaches kids the basics of data presentation and analysis. Kids will be taught how to take a simple survey

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Cool Graphing - Fun Graphing Programs for Kids "

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