13 Smart Charts!

Flowers of Different Colours

Have you been to a park?
What coloured flowers did you see?
Were most of the flowers yellow
in colour?
Look at the different flowers in the
picture. Complete the table:
Colour Number
of flowers of flowers
Blue
Red

Orange

Purple

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Draw the right flower. Write how many there are.
a) are the most in number. How many? .
b) are the least in number. How many? .
c) are more than
d) are more than

What do We See on the Road?

Look at the traffic scene in the picture and fill in the table.

This chapter is an early introduction to data handling, an important area of mathematics. By the
end of primary school, children need to be able to collect and record data, to present it in the form
of bar charts and tables, to recognise patterns in the data and to draw inferences.Teachers can
take several interesting and even funny examples from chilldren's own experiences. Pictures
given here could also be used for different classification exercises, such as the number of petals
of flowers.

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 t Way of Travel How many
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a rid hart?
Walking (people)
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Bicycles
Scooters

Answer the following questions.

a) In the picture which way of travel do you see the most?

b) Which way of travel (vehicle) do you see the least?

c) The number of people walking is more than the number of

d) The number of buses is less than the number of

How Many Times do You Get 6?

Have you
played any
games with
dice?

How many dots

are there on the
different faces
of a die?

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❋ Throw a die.
❋ Look at the number of dots you get on the face of your die.
❋ For each throw draw a mark / in front of that number in
the table.
❋ Throw the die 30 times and mark in the table each time.

For example, Rabia threw her die 30 times. She got five
times. In her table she marked: /////

Now fill in the table:

Face of the die Number of times

( / for each throw)

a) Which face of the die did you get the most number of times?

b) How many times did come up? times

c) came up more number of times than

d) Compare your table with that of the student sitting next to

you. Do you find any difference in the two tables?

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Find out from People Around You
1. Talk to people around you about their favourite sweets.
Fill in the table:

Favourite Number
sweet of
people
Jalebi

From the above table answer the following:

a) Most favourite sweet

b) Least favourite sweet

c) is liked more than
(Name of the sweet) (Name of the sweet)

d) is liked more than

e) is liked more than
f) is liked more than

Also find out from

animals around you!

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2. Ask your friends about the number of people living in their
homes. Fill in the table.

Should I make a smart Number of people How many

chart about smart living together families
horses living together? 1 alone
2 people
3 people
4 people
5 people
6 people
7 people
8 people
..............

a) Most families have people living in their homes.

b) The least number of people living in a home is
c) The number of families having 4 people is

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3. What have your classmates brought for lunch today? Find
out and note down.

Number of
Food item
students

a) Food item brought for lunch by the biggest number

of students
b) Food item brought by the smallest number of students

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Getting Smart with Charts
Attendance Board
Date 8/2/2007

Class Number of Students Students

students present absent

Class I 27 25 2

Class II 23 22 1

Class III 24 21 3

Class IV 22 18 4

Class V 25 23 2

Total

This board shows the number of students in each class. It also

shows the number of students present and absent.
❋ How many children in all are there in the school?
❋ How many children in all are absent on that day?
Absent Students' Chart
Class Absent students
Class I

Class II

Class III

Class IV

Class V

This is a chart to show the number of absent students. Each

absent student is shown by .
❋ In the chart show the absent students of Class V.

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Now look at the chart and fill in the blanks:
a) The class with the highest number of absent students is
.
b) The class with the least number of absent students is
.
c) The class with 3 students absent is .
d) The number of students absent in Class IV and Class V are
and .

How Long is Your Hand?

❋ Make a group of 4 friends.
❋ Cut strips from waste paper. The strips should be of the
same width.
❋ Measure the length of each student's hand with the paper
strip. Cut the strip and write the name of the student.

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Rohan, Jacob and Geeta also measured their hands. They stuck
their strips as shown.

Length of hand

Jacob 10 cm
Rohan 8 cm

Geeta 9 cm
Rohan Geeta Jacob

Look at the picture and fill in the blanks:

a) The length of Jacob's hand is (more/less) than
Geeta's hand.
b) The length of Geeta's hand is (more/less) than
Rohan's hand.
c) has the longest hand.
d) has the shortest hand.
In the chart below stick the strips of all the friends in your
group. Keep some space between the strips.
Length of hand

Names of students

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Children coming to School

Look at the picture and fill in the table.

Way of
coming Tractor
Number of 3
students

3 students are coming by a tractor. We write 3 in the table. We

also draw 3 faces on top of 'tractor' in the chart. Draw faces in
the chart to show how many children come by bus, bicycle, etc.

How many in your

class have never
had a ride on me?
Number of students

bus tractor bicycle rickshaw on foot

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Fill in the blanks:
a) The most number of students come to school by .
b) The number of students walking to school is
(more/less) than the students coming on bicycle.
c) The least number of students come to school by .

So, isn't this a smart chart! By simply looking at it we can know

so much. Let us make more such charts.

Practice Time
Make your own smart charts about things around you.
Like —

❋ Which bird has the most

colours?

❋ Which animal is liked most as

a pet?

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A Vegetable You do not Like!

Which vegetable is most disliked? Ask your friends and complete

the table.

Vegetable disliked Number of students

Use this table to draw faces in the chart below. Draw for
each child on top of the vegetable disliked.
❋ The most disliked vegetable is .
❋ The vegetable disliked by very few children is .
Number of students

Vegetable disliked

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