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🧮 1st Grade · Math1.MD.C.4Unit 11: Data: tally, picture & bar graphs

Ask questions about data

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🎯 Objective: Students answer how many in all, how many more and how many fewer from a graph.

Lesson outline

  1. Model three questions about a graph.
  2. Partners write questions for each other.
  3. Solve and share.
  4. Exit: how many more voted for dogs than cats?

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1.MD.C.4

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 1 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Organize and represent data with up to three categories
  • Answer how many in all and how many more questions

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Measure lengths & tell time📚 All 1st Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Data: tally, picture & bar graphs”

  1. Collect data with tallies
  2. Picture and bar graphs
  3. Ask questions about data

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