Interpreting Tables

Lesson Plan - Get It!

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On a piece of paper, write your name and how many pants you have.

Keep hunting around the house to find how many pants all the other members of your family have. Write each of their names and how many they have.

• Do you dare to hunt in the dirty laundry?

Now that you have all the information, called data, you are going to make a table. Not a table you eat on, but a math table.

A math table helps make all the information you have clear and easy to understand.

1. Print out the Table Template from Downloadable Resources in the right-hand sidebar.

2. On the top, write the title so people know what they will learn about when they see it.

3. You also need to name each column.

4. On left side, you will write everyone’s name, so title it "Name."

5. On the right side, title it "How Many?"

6. Write everyone’s name on the left side. On the right side, write how many pants they have.

7. Look at your table to answer these questions.

• Who has the most pants?
• Who has the least?
• What is the difference between how many pants you have and what your mom or dad has?

Continue to the Got It? section to play an online game and learn to make a graph.