Resource #V102223

Précis

Student tally the students' favourite dinosaurs from the Isle of Wight, and enter their results into a bar graph and pie chart, before answering questions on key aspects of the results.

Contextual Summary

This is a curriculum-based mathematics resource that enables students to practise their tally skills, understanding frequency and presenting their collated statistical data through the use of graphs, including pictograms, bar graphs and pie charts. The skills required to undertake the task are core to curriculum areas within mathematics.

Curriculum Relevance

Mathematics → Statistics / Handling Data → Dinosaur Data!

Implementation

This resource can be used on-site at the end of the visit or could also be used when back in the classroom, as a post-visit activity. This is a peripheral task that links to the key areas of interest within the Dinosaur Isle museum, most notably the dinosaur types found on the Isle of Wight.

Key Skills Practised

• Practising tallying skills
• Collating and presenting statistical data
• Drawing conclusions from their results

Learning Opportunities

Pre-Visit

Preparation for the visit, work on the skills for this resource: tallying, recording data, frequency, use of pictograms, pie charts and bar charts, etc.

On Site

Completion of the resource linked to this document: Dino Data Challenge!

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to understand the process of obtaining information then transforming it into statistical data before presenting it in an appropriate graph or chart. They will show understanding of potential reasons for their results. They will have practised tallying skills, collation and presentation skills, and will demonstrate accuracy in drawing conclusions from their results.