Aimssec Birthday Bar Chart - African Institute For Mathematical Sciences (Page 2 of 3) in pdf

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NOTES FOR TEACHERS

Why do this activity?

This is a good activity for introducing learners to drawing bar charts to represent data. Without any

instruction from the teacher learners should be able to read the required information for themselves from the

graph so learning from experience.

Intended learning outcomes

Understanding of how to read and interpret data from a bar chart.

Practice in collecting data and drawing a bar chart.

Possible approach

You could show this chart to the learners and ask them questions about it.

Then print the template for the Birthday Bar Chart (see page 3) and get each member of the class to write

their initials in a box for their birth month.

Then show the chart for your class and ask some more questions.

Key questions

Is there a month when there are the most birthdays (the mode)

What differences do you notice between the chart given for Class 4 and our birthdays chart?

Possible extension

The class could collect some other data and draw a par chart using a template in a similar way.

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