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S Y1 The Perfect Pizza Party – PPDAC cycle new

A statistical enquiry aimed at Year 1 ākonga, around designing pizza toppings for a pizza party. This lesson has strong literacy links to the letter p. Kaiako can take this idea further, please see the Y3 Pizza Party activity. 

This activity explores the following key ideas:

  • suggest broad areas for an investigative question that can be answered with data
  • anticipate what the data might show
  • collect data by making observations or questioning others
  • discuss how the data-gathering process might affect other people 
  • collect categorical data 
  • use data cards to collect primary data
  • create data visualisations for categorical data, eg picture graphs and physical dot plots 
  • describe data visualisations for categorical data, giving the frequency for each category 
  • choose statements from class created descriptive statements that best answers the investigative question 
  • agree or disagree with others’ statements about simple data visualisations, eg picture graphs and physical dot plots 

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