During this lesson learners will begin to understand the importance of organising data effectively for counting and comparing. They will create their own tally charts to organise data and represent the tally count as a total. Finally, learners will answer questions comparing totals in tally charts using vocabulary such as ‘more than’ and ‘less than’.

During this lesson learners will become familiar with the term ‘pictogram’. They will create pictograms manually and then progress to creating them using a computer. Learners will begin to understand the advantages of using computers rather than manual methods to create pictograms, and use this to answer simple questions.

During this lesson learners will think about the importance of effective data collection. They will consider the benefits of different data collection methods and why, for example, we would use a pictogram to display the data collected. They will record their data collection using a tally chart and use this to make a pictogram on a computer. Learners will explain what their finished pictogram shows by writing a range of statements to describe this.

During this lesson learners will think about ways in which objects can be grouped by attribute. They will then tally objects using a common attribute and present the data in the form of a pictogram. Learners will answer questions based on their pictograms using mathematical vocabulary such as ‘more than’/’less than’ and ‘most’/’least’.