Christmas Fun Maths Games - Bar Graphs & Tally Charts

These Christmas resources will generate fun for math games and give students opportunities to create data, draw a statistics graph, such as a bar graph or tally chart, and answer questions by using this information. They are encouraged to make up their own questions for their peers thereby learning how to interpret a statistics table and data collection. The tally chart and bar graphs creator - the die or dice - has cute clipart to make this appealing to children.

How will this help the students:

• learn about early statistics - bar graphs and tally charts
• cute clipart on resources will make this appealing
• easy to generate data to plot onto graphs and charts
• fun games with peers with a competitive element to add interest
• questions to answer with resources
• students use the graphs to make up own questions
• individual game for students who wish to rehearse statistics by themselves
• games for 2 or more people to compete to win the race
• Christmas and winter themes
• games that can be printed off and stored centrally so students have easy access to them
• ready made fun resources for choosing time and early finishers
• if children use counters rather than pencil marks to plot the bar graphs then these can be used over and over again
• instructions how to make the different dice and play the games
• different Christmas and winter themes to choose from so for example if they feel confident with winter clothes they can test if they can apply their knowledge by using the winter trees resources

How this will help you:

• easy prep - print and either make the dice or if children are able to follow the instructions they can make these
• only need 1 die per group
• different themes to choose from
• resources to learn about statistics in fun ways
• can be used as adult led activity to assess and teach about bar graphs, tally charts, how to answer set questions and tailor make questions using the data generated in that game
• can be an independent activity to occupy most of the class as you are working with a small group
• simple resources needed - glue, scissors, pencils (or counters to play bar graph games multiple times)
• children are encouraged to use the data to make up questions - this will show how well they understand these concepts and how challenging they can make their questions
• color/ colour and black and white versions for more printing options
• Dyslexic font available for some themes for those who may benefit from this
• fun early statistics homework
• blank templates for you to draw/ write your own criteria
• blank templates for children to create activities for their peers to try out
• this goes well with other Christmas and winter themed activities - so you could have a carousel of activities for children to choose from
• instructions included using both U.S. and U.K. spellings (math/maths and color/ colour)
• great for home school / home education activities

This resource is for letter size paper but can also be printed onto A4 size paper.

This resource goes well with my resource for Picture Graphs, the link is :

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Fun-Maths-Games-Picture-Graphs-7494512

Other Christmas resources in my store are:

Math:

equivalent numbers and problem solving and making Christmas baubles and games:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Math-Fun-Activities-7454066

equivalent numbers (Lollipop game)

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Math-Freebie-7446201

Phonics:
alternative spellings and making Christmas baubles and games:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Phonics-Baubles-and-Games-Alternative-Spellings-can-be-fun-7473168

and

alternative spellings

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Fun-Phonics-Freebie-Game-to-sort-Real-and-Nonsense-words-7474052