Mathematics - Early Statistics for Chinese New Year & Valentine

What is a bar graph or tally chart? These resources will generate fun for math games and give students opportunities to create data, draw a statistics graph and then answer questions using this information. They are encouraged to make up their own questions for their peers, thereby learning how to interpret a statistics graph and data collection. The cute clipart and competitive element - as this is a 'race to get to the top' - will keep them engaged and motivated to see who will win.

This will help your students by:

• enjoying math/ maths activities and having fun with peers
• learning about bar graphs and tally charts - how to add information and interpret this
• becoming more confident in understanding how simple data works
• generating their own data which makes this more exciting
• cute Chinese New Year and Valentine clipart makes this fun for activities in February
• 6 different themes to choose from
• games can be used for individuals, pairs or small groups
• this can be fun homework so children can share what they have learned with their family

This will help you by:

• easy prep - print, provide simple resources such as glue, scissors and pencils to make die/ dice
• instructions how to make die/ dice and play games included to make this an independent activity
• a fun way to engage students with statistics for you to assess and explain any misconceptions during their game as an adult-led activity
• this can part of a lesson on statistics so a simple exercise for children to do independently as you teach another group
• children are encouraged to make up their own questions which could be part of the plenary of the lesson as you go through some of their questions - this will encourage them to think up more challenging questions and value their work
• fun homework to share with parents - just print off the dice and games you wish them to work on
• a great addition to use with other activities for Chinese New Year or Valentine
• you can alter the length of the activities by setting a time limit and see who has got furthest on their bar graph or set the number of tally marks higher or lower than the suggested 10
• great for homeschool/ home education
• leave these resources in a central math/ maths area for children to access during free choosing time such as wet playtime early finishers
• color/ colour (6 themes) and black and white (1 theme) for more printing options
• dyslexic font to help students who will benefit from this plus less clipart on some of these pages which is less distracting
• this resource can be printed onto letter size and A4 size paper and uses both U.S. and U.K. spellings

I hope your students enjoy this and become more confident with statistics