Musical Instruments Survey and Frequency Chart

Science and Mathematics

• In this activity, children can conduct a survey to find out their family and/or friends' favorite musical instruments then record the data on a frequency chart.
• Older students can follow up the activity by making a graph to display their data.

Materials

• clipboard or notebook
• pencil
• ruler
• crayons or markers

 
Directions

• Have students poll their family and friends as to their favorite musical instruments. They should mark a tally for each vote, then record this data (information) on a frequency chart.

• Older children could use the data from the frequency chart to create a bar or other graph to display their results.The graph should include:

                     ~ title
                    ~ columns (equal to the number of instruments)
                    ~ 2 labeled axis
                     ~a numerical scale starting at zero

• Finally students should explain their data (oral or written). Which instrument had the most votes? Which instrument had the fewest votes? Etc.
• More advanced math students can also find the mean, medium, mode, maximum, minimum, and range for the data.

Animals and Data Analysis

This is a MATH Extension lesson to the Animal Classification Activity with stuffed animals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Have the children estimate the number of stuffed animals that they have in each display. (How many mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc.?????)
• Then tally the number of animals in each group and create a tally chart. (Compare the numbers.)
• Lastly, graph the number of animals in each group. Compare.  Which group has the most? Which group has the least?  Do any groups have the same number?

 

Here is a MATH VIDEO from Brain Pop Jr. called Tally Charts and Bar Graphs to introduce or review Surveys, Tally Charts, and Bar Graphs.
Click here: Brain Pop Video

• An extension activity for older students is to find the Mean, Median, Mode, Maximum, Minimum, and Range from the Data in this activity.
• Students can also record and display the data using tables, line plots, etc.