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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.

Additional details
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 (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M1ST02 Represent collected data for a categorical variable using one-to-one displays and digital tools where appropriate; compare the data using frequencies and discuss the findings AC9M2ST01 Acquire data for categorical variables through surveys, observation, experiment and using digital tools; sort data into relevant categories and display data using lists and tables AC9M2ST02 Create different graphical representations of data using software where appropriate; compare the different representations, identify and describe common and distinctive features in response to questions AC9M3ST02 Create and compare different graphical representations of data sets including using software where appropriate; interpret the data in terms of the context
Numeracy progression	Counting processes (P3) Interpreting and representing data (P2, P3, P4)
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