Sorting Data into Categories
Organise and represent data with up to three categories by counting objects in each category and sorting categories by quantity
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“Can your child look at a collection of objects — like different coloured counters — sort them into up to three groups, count each group, and organise the results into a simple chart?”
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- Activity. Organise and represent data with up to three categories by counting objects in each category and sorting categories by quantity
What to notice. Sort a set of objects into 2-3 given categories and count each group • Create a simple table or list showing category names and counts • Order categories from most to fewest or fewest to most
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Can your child look at a collection of objects — like different coloured counters — sort them into up to three groups, count each group, and organise the results into a simple chart?
Organise and represent data with up to three categories by counting objects in each category and sorting categories by quantity
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- Sort a set of objects into 2-3 given categories and count each group
- Create a simple table or list showing category names and counts
- Order categories from most to fewest or fewest to most
“Can your child look at a collection of objects — like different coloured counters — sort them into up to three groups, count each group, and organise the results into a simple chart?”
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- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Data & Statistics
- Age range
- Ages 6–8
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