Birthday Month Maths Lesson

Learning Area(s): Achievement Objective: Class/Group/Level: Date/Duration:

Mathematics Statistical investigation 2 and 3 10/06/19

● Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry
(Statistics) cycle. 35 mins
○ Posing and answering questions.
○ Gathering, sorting, and displaying category
and whole-number data.
○ Communicating findings based on the data.

Preparation: Resources:
● Coloured pencils
● T will make the pictograph with months of the year printed off and glued into a line. ● Pre made pictograph
● Print off the mini cupcakes for students to colour in ● Cupcake pictures
● Blue Tac the graph onto the whiteboard ● Glue
● Blue Tac
● Vivid
● Scissors

Key Competencies: Motivation: Time: Assessment procedures:

I will aim to engage students by using group discussion and
● Thinking class collaboration. ● Students will have an
● Using understanding of how to
language, Learning Intentions: use pictograms to collect
Symbols, and We are learning to: and display data
texts ● To understand how pictographs can be used to collect effectively.
● Managing and display data effectively. ● Students will be able to
self ● To be able to use effective questioning in order to find out explain
● Relating to more information based on the finding of the pictograph.
others Success Criteria:
● Participating Learning Experiences:
and ● 3 mins ● Students will be able to
contributing. ● Students will start off on the mat as a whole class explain the findings based
● T will explain that we are trying to find out who is born in on the information
what month, using a pictograph as the way in which we ● 2 mins provided by the graph
record the data ● Students will be able to
● T will then give out the pre prepared cupcake pictures for ● 15 mins pose questions as well as
students to colour in answer those posed by
 ● They will be released to their desks to decorate their ● 4 mins other students.
pictures
● Students will then return back onto the mat, T will get one
student at a time to bring up their cupcake which they can ● 6 mins
stick onto the graph.
● When the graph is complete, T will ask students what
they can tell the class about the findings.
○ E.g. 3 people were born in March and 3 people
were born in August or no one was born in
January.
The activity concludes

Assessment of children’s learning:

Next steps: What will be the next teaching focus based on today’s learning?

Evaluation of personal teaching: How well did I teach and prepare?

(Including effectiveness of assessment procedures)