Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Second

Content Area: Statistics

Skills: Answer question about a picture graph by applying the principle of counting by twos, fives and tens. Explain to the students that a picture graph illustrates a given collection of data and that one symbol can be used to represent one or several objects.

Instructional Objective: Problem Solving, Reasoning, and Connections

Materials Needed: A picture graph, beans or counters for each student and containers for the students to put their beans or counters in.

Technology:

IBM

Calcu-Table

Measure It

Measure Up

Measurement Recording Tool

Reading for Information

Activity:

Give each student a bean or counter. Ask questions that involve all of the students. These can be questions about any theme that is being used in the classroom. As the students answer the questions have them drop their counters into a container (only 2, 5 or 10 per container, depending on which counting principle is being used. Then place the containers in a graph with pictures illustrating the question.