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Study of Data: Look at The Above Picture and Fi LL The Required Data

The document contains examples of using data collection methods like questionnaires, surveys, tables, and pictographs to represent various sets of data. Several activities are presented that ask students to collect data through questionnaires on topics like the number of classrooms and teachers in their school. Additional activities have students tallying and representing sports scores, toy sales, and the number of computers supplied to different schools using pictographs and tables. Students are asked to analyze the data and answer questions.

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Study of Data: Look at The Above Picture and Fi LL The Required Data

The document contains examples of using data collection methods like questionnaires, surveys, tables, and pictographs to represent various sets of data. Several activities are presented that ask students to collect data through questionnaires on topics like the number of classrooms and teachers in their school. Additional activities have students tallying and representing sports scores, toy sales, and the number of computers supplied to different schools using pictographs and tables. Students are asked to analyze the data and answer questions.

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15 STUDY OF DATA

Look at the above picture and fill the required data:

1)) Number of buildings 4) Number of trees

2) Number of birds 5) Number of ducks

3) Number of lotus 6) Number of fish

ACTIVITY 1

Try to collect data for the following questions from your school.

1) Number of class rooms 2) Number of teachers


3) Number of male teachers 4) Number of female teachers

5) Number of trees, bikes, bicycles, toilets, taps.

6) Number of students in standards I, II, III, IV and V.

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Questionnaire model:
Data gives us
information !
Collection of
information helps
us to know
many facts!

Questionnaire is one of the


methods to collect information

Questions are framed


on the information we need

Name of the head of the family Number of persons in the family

Adult Children

Number of children studying in


Number of literates
School College

Occupation of the Total income of


the family
head of the family

Mother tongue of the student

“A survey is a method of collecting information through


data gathering ,interview and questionnaire”

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ACTIVITY 2

Following table shows the hours spent by the friends in


the playground during summer holidays.

DAY
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY TOTAL
NAME
Balu 2 1 2 1
...............
Raja 2 1 2 3
...............
Malar 1 3 3 2
...............
Varun 2 1 0 2
...............
Sandhya 3 2 1 1
...............

1. Who spent maximum time in the playground?

2. Who spent minimum time in the playground?

3. Who spent maximum time in the playground on Thursday?

4. How many hours did Sandya spend in the playground on Monday?

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Project

Ask your classmates about their favourite subjects


and record it in the table. (Group work).

Sl.no Subjects No.of.students


1. Tamil
2. English
3. Maths
4. Science
5. Social science
6. Drawing
7. Music
8. Sports
9. Computer
10. G. K

Subject is liked by the most.

Tally marks Number Tally Marks


1
Before the invention of numbers, ancient 2
3
people used fingers, knots and tally marks for 4
counting. ‘I’ is called “tally mark”. To Make it 5
6
easier to count, after 4 tally marks the fifth 7
8
tally mark is entered as 9
10

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ACTIVITY 3

Following are the marks scored by III std students in


mathematics.

40 60 48 52 58 43 58 40 60 52

52 58 48 40 60 40 40 53 52 43

43 52 40 48 53 60 60 52 40 48

Convert the above marks into the table using tally marks.

Marks Tally Marks No. of students

40 7

43

48

52

53

58

60
TOTAL

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Exercise 1

The physical education master in a school recorded the


height of the 20 students (in cm)

100 118 110 118 118


118 100 100 118 100
110 100 118 110 110
100 110 100 100 110

Prepare the table with tally marks for the above data :

Height (cm) Tally marks Number of students

100

110

118

TOTAL

Pictographs

Representation of data in the form of symbols

and pictures are easy to study. This kind of representation


is called “PICTOGRAPHS”.

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ACTIVITY 4

The following pictograph shows the sale of toys in a shop :

CAR

VAN

BUS

BALL

DOLL

Look at the above pictograph and fill the required data :

a) Total number of toys sold

b) Total number of balls sold 6

c) Name the toy which sold least in number

d) Name the toy which sold most in number

e) Total number of buses sold

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ACTIVITY 5

The following pictograph represents the number of apples sold


at a shop in a week.

= 10 Apples

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Answer the following questions from the data given in the above
table.

1) Total number of apples sold in six days

2) Total number of apples sold on Thursday

3) The sale was maximum on

4) The sale was minimum on

5) The sales were equal on and

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ACTIVITY 6

Represent the following data in terms of pictograph.


= 5 Students

No.of I Std
Standard
Students
I 15 II Std

II 20 III Std
III 25
IV Std
IV 20
V 30 V Std

Date:.....................

1) In a cricket selection match, 25 students


participated. The number of runs scored by
each student is given below.
30 30 32 40 45
Prepare a table with tally marks for
32 30 40 45 40
the above data.
32 32 32 30 40
No. of
45 40 45 45 40 Runs Tally marks
students
30 30 32 32 30

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2) Number of computers supplied to the schools are given below.

= 4 Computers

School A

School B

School C

School D

School E

From the above pictograph, fill the following data.

a) Number of computers supplied to the school A

b) Total number of computers supplied to all schools

c) Number of computers supplied to the school D

d) Number of computers supplied to the school B

3) Represent the number of students in each class of your


school through pictograph.

ts
Commen

Teacher’s signature

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