Two data displays, two question sets. Mr. Green's pet vote arrives as a tally chart (Dog 5, Cat 4, Rabbit 3) with a callout reminding students that a bundle of tallies with a line across equals 5. Then a fruit vote arrives as a picture graph with one icon per vote: 6 apples, 4 bananas, 3 pears. The questions cover counts, totals and differences, such as how many more students chose dog than rabbit.
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“Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.”
Both charts carry exactly three categories, and the question sets cover every verb in the standard: counts per category, totals, and how many more.
Tally marks record Mr. Green's class vote: 5 for dog, 4 for cat, 3 for rabbit. Questions 1 to 4 include the difference question answered by 5 - 3 = 2.
A reminder box shows the bundled tally with a line across and states that it equals 5.
Fruit icons stand for one vote each: 6 apples, 4 bananas, 3 pears, with the key printed beneath. Question 5 opens the set by asking how many students chose banana.
Tally-reading first
Read Part 1 together before independent work; the bundled five with its cross-line is a convention some students have never met.
Make the third chart
After the sheet, run your own class vote with three options and let students build the tally chart in the same format.
Assessment pairing
Score Part 2 on its own if you need a clean picture-graph data point; it stands independent of the tally work.
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