LEGO data

Collect resources

You will need:

• LEGO bricks or coloured blocks

• paper

• pencils or a marker

• a ruler.

Instructions

• Grab two or three big handfuls of LEGO bricks that are the same size.

• Sort the LEGO into colours.

• Use a ruler to draw a baseline on your piece of paper. Then line your LEGO bricks up in columns along the baseline. What do you notice?

• Describe or write what you can see in your graph.

• What colour do you have the most of?

• Do you have any columns with the same amount?

Discuss/reflect

• Draw a picture of your LEGO graph.

• Why is it important to line up your LEGO bricks? What did you notice when the bricks were not lined up evenly?

• Try taking a handful of LEGO bricks with different sized pieces. How does that change the way you can sort your bricks?