Name: __________________

DATA MANAGEMENT & PROBABILITY: COLLECTING & ORGANIZING DISCRETE DATA

1. The circle graph (pie chart) below shows the

favourite foods of Robert’s classmates. Discrete Data can have only a
finite (limited) number of
different values.
For example:
a) Which food is the favourite? • Your grade level can only be
1, 2, 3, 4, …, 11, 12.
_________________________ • Your shoe size can only be 1,
b) Which is the least favourite food? 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, …, 12.5, 13.
• You can have 12 cousins but
_________________________ not 12.67 cousins.

Discrete data is usually

2. Sinthuja surveyed her classmates regarding their favourite colours. displayed on bar graphs, pie
Six students liked orange, 10 liked blue, four liked red, four liked charts, tally charts, and point
purple and two liked green. Complete the bar graph below to show graphs.
the results of Sinthuja’s survey.
Favourite Colours
12
11
10 DID YOU KNOW?
9
Number 8 The section of mathematics
of 7 that deals with collecting,
Students 6 organizing and analyzing
5
4
data is called statistics!
3 Go to www.statcan.ca to
2
1 learn more about how
0 statistics are used in Canada.
Orange Blue Red Purple Green

Colour

3. During the spring break, 100 students from

Iwonka’s school travelled. Complete the circle graph.
Include a title and a legend as in question 1 above.
Destination Number of
Students
No travelling 50
Canada 35
Europe 5
USA 10
Total 100

Expectation: i) organize discrete data and display the data in graphs; ii) read, interpret and draw conclusions from data presented in charts, tables and graphs
4. a) Go to Create A Graph. (Go to mathfrog.ca for the link.)
b) Select Bar Graph.
c) Select the Data tab along the right and insert an appropriate Graph Title and Axes Labels.
d) Change Source to your name, Items to 4, Groups to 1, and Group Label to Season.
e) Choose your colour for the Bar.
f) Enter the data below in the table on your screen.
Students’ Birthdays by Season
Winter Spring Summer Autumn
Number of Students 12 8 9 10
g) Enter 0 as Min-Value and 15 as Max-Value.
h) Select the Preview tab to view your graph.
i) To print your graph, select the Print / Save tab. Then select the Print icon and be sure that the print
format is PDF (Adobe Acrobat). Finally click Print to view your image and then select File  Print.
j) Use your graph to answer the following questions.
I) Which season has the most birthdays? ____________________
II) Which season has the fewest birthdays? ____________________
III) What is the difference between your answers in (I) and (II)? ____________________
k) Five new students arrived. Three were born in autumn, one in spring, and one in summer. Update your
graph to reflect these changes by selecting the Data tab and entering the new values.
l) Which season now has the most birthdays? ____________________

TRY THIS!
RANDY’S STORY Each point on the graph below represents one of
“Of my favourite basketball players, the players in Randy’s story. Read Randy’s story
Vince Carter has been playing in the several times. Match each player with a point and
NBA for the shortest time. complete the blanks below.

Reggie Miller has been in the league ▲

for the longest. ■ ♦
●
Shaquille O’Neal has scored the most ♥
points per game. *

Alonzo Mourning has been playing in

the NBA longer than Jason Kidd and
Kobe Bryant. ■..
Of these three players, Kobe has the ♦..
most points per game.” ▲..
●..
♥..
*..

5. You may now return to Create A Graph and create your own Pie Chart.

Expectation: i) organize discrete data and display the data in graphs; ii) read, interpret and draw conclusions from data presented in charts, tables and graphs