Tally charts resources

Task: Decide which of two graphs e.g., tally chart, pictograph, bar graph is represented by a picture and explain how the graph/s are interpreted.

In this practical task, students collect data on the number of people in cars passing the school. They then record this, in a table and use the information to make a prediction.

Students pose a question for an investigation about favourite sports. They then construct a table that could record the results.

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on the question to investigate, conduct the survey, complete the tally chart, and construct and label a bar graph.

Students complete a bar graph from information in a tally chart about the ages of students and interpret the data by answering questions.

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on a question, categories, conduct the survey, tally and graph the results on a bar graph.

Students construct and give a title for a bar graph of favourite food from data in a tally chart.

Students complete and total a tally chart of food left from Tiare's party.

This task requires students to interpret and answer questions about a tally chart showing the number of trucks passing a given point.

Students construct a tally chart of project marks by grouping the marks, tallying and then totalling each group of marks..

Students read a short piece of text and construct a tally chart for the number of letters in each word. With these results they draw and label a pie graph.

This task requires students to answer questions about a tally chart of the number of planes taking off from an airport.

Students estimate and tally the number of each activity their partner completes in 30 seconds. They then identify the best estimate.

Students record the number of different shapes on a tally chart and total each.

Students complete a chart showing the tally and total for different kinds of fruit.

Students construct a dot plot of fish seen at an aquarium from a tally chart, and answer questions interpreting the results.

Students interpret a tally chart of the number of hours of people read in a week

Students plan aspects of a statistical investigation about the most common birth month in Year 8, including designing a table for data collection.

Students interpret a tally chart showing the number of times the phone rang each day for one week.

Students complete an array to show the number of shaded and unshaded shapes. Students identify the most common shape.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.