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Statistics: tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams

This guide provides a sequence of steps to develop understanding of data displays, from using tally charts through to drawing and interpreting pictograms involving multiplicative thinking.

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Year level(s)	Year 1, Year 2, Year 3
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	data, tally, tally charts, pictogram, block diagram, interpret, reasoning, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Statistics, Build understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Multiplication and division, Data representation and interpretation
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMSP263 Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the displays ACMSP049 Collect, check and classify data ACMSP050 Create displays of data using lists, table and picture graphs and interpret them ACMSP070 Interpret and compare data displays
National numeracy learning progression	Additive strategies Interpreting and representing data - IRD1, IRD2 Multiplicative strategies
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