Year 4 Data logging worksheet

“Does the data fit?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 computing unit “Data logging”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 19 to 24 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Does the data fit?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Computing · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can decide whether a data set has the information needed to answer a question.

A Look back3 min

1.
How many more cats than fish are there?
2.
Which fruit is the favourite? Circle one.
AppleBananaPear
3.
Which day had the most rain? Circle one.
MonTueWed

B Watch me, then you4 min

Sara's steps for three days are on a chart. Can the chart tell us which day was warmest?

Watch me

The chart shows days and steps.

It does not show temperature.

So it cannot answer this question.

Now you

1.
A chart shows how many books Leo read each week. Can it tell you how many minutes he read? Circle your answer.
YesNo

C Your turn6 min

Each chart is a data set. Circle Yes if the chart can answer the question, or No if it cannot.

1.
This chart shows cups of water Sam drank each day. Can it tell you which day he drank most? Circle your answer.
YesNo
2.
This chart shows minutes Priya spent on homework each night. Can it tell you how many books she read? Circle your answer.
YesNo
3.
This chart shows goals scored in four games. Can it tell you how many goals were scored in all four games? Circle your answer.
YesNo
4.
This chart shows pets sold in a shop. Can it tell you what colour each pet was? Circle your answer.
YesNo

Say it out loud: What did you look for on each chart? What was missing when the answer was No?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “Tuesday has the tallest bar, so Tuesday is the day I ran fastest.”

1.
Can this steps chart tell us which day Kit ran fastest? Circle your answer.
YesNo

E Think deeper3 min

1.
A school wants to know which lunch pupils like best. Can this chart of lunches cooked today answer that? Which data set would they need? Explain why.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Does the data fit? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 3

2. Banana

3. Tue

B

1. No Books and minutes are different things. Ask your child what the chart counts, then check it against the question.

C

1. Yes

2. No Homework minutes are not books. Ask your child whether the thing counted on the chart is the thing the question asks about.

3. Yes Every game's goals are on the chart, so the total can be worked out. Ask your child to add the four bars.

4. No

D

1. No Kit thinks more steps means faster. Steps show how far Kit walked, not how fast. Ask your child what the chart measures.

E

1. Look for: Says the chart cannot answer it because lunches cooked are not lunches liked, and names data of each pupil's favourite lunch, such as a survey, so votes can be counted.

Words to use

Say“What does this chart count? Is that the same thing the question asks about?”

Instead of“Just read the chart and guess an answer.”

After the sheet

Each evening for three days, write how many cups of water you drink in a list with two columns, Day and Cups. Then ask one question it can answer and one it cannot.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Sensors send data in(with a plan)
Logging Readings Over Time(with a plan)
Sorting data on a computer(with a plan)
Planning a data logger test(with a plan)
Sensors and questions(with a plan)

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