Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs

Collecting and graphing data can be a fantastic tool for getting to know your students and for your students to get to know one another! In this lesson, students will poll their classmates to gather data and then graph the results!

Grade

First Grade

Subject

Math

View aligned standards

1.MD.C.4

With the lesson plan, Graphing Data: Tally Marks and Bar Graphs first graders gain practice with collecting and interpreting data using bar graphs! Children will be tasked with analyzing bar graphs and then answering questions about the data. Then, children will collect data from friends and family and organize their information into a bar graph. Once they finish, children will have a better understanding of how to organize, represent, and interpret data—an important skill for young mathematicians to master!

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to organize, represent, and interpret data using a bar graph with at least three categories.

Introduction

(5minutes)

Display Beginning Bar Graph: Favorite Cake on the board.
Give students time to discuss what they know or notice.
Invite volunteers to share their thoughts.
Introduce vocabulary words: data, the number collected for analysis, bar graph, a diagram that represents data by the height of lines or rectangles, interpret, understanding the data, and categories, a group of objects linked by a similar trait.