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Data Analysis

Data analysis can be very simple, like making a list of items and writing how many you have of each in parentheses, or creating and talking about a bar graph whose bars are higher for snowy than rainy days in the month of January.  Whether the process involves specialized statistical software or markers and chart paper, what remains the same is that data analysis gathers information in a quantitative way (how many?), and then organizes it in some way that makes comparison and generalization possible.

Copyright: Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative. Reprinted from Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (2014), Pearson Education.

data collection activities
Series: Book Ideas

Early Childhood Data Collection Activities Are for the Birds

May 5, 2021

Children are naturally interested in birds, so springtime is the perfect opportunity for early childhood data collection activities. Here are some favorites, along with book recommendations.

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Asia Citro, Susan Edwards Richmond, Family Math, Birds, Kevin Henkes, Animals
rekenrek activity, rekenrek voting
Series: Focus on the Lesson April 13, 2021

Rekenrek Chart for Voting in the Classroom

Looking for new rekenrek activity ideas? Try voting with a rekenrek chart. In this video, we see a rekenrek chart used to solve a dilemma common to early childhood classrooms: choosing between two favorite books…

  • Topic: Number Sense, Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Rekenrek, Subitizing
simple graph graphs for kids graphing for kids what is data analysis in math books
Series: Book Ideas March 24, 2019

3 Books That Encourage Simple Graph Explorations with Young Ones

At the heart of it, graphing in the early years is about quantifying information in order to answer a question. That requires children to organize data in some visible way so that comparisons and generalizations…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Mitsumasa Anno, Graphing, Anno’s Flea Market, Shoes, Which Would You Rather Be?, Comparing, William Steig, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne
mouse count math children games and counting 636x363
Series: Ideas at Work February 14, 2018

Control Your Math Fate, Estimate!

Ellen Stoll Walsh's book Mouse Count can be used in the classroom to cover such broad-ranging topics as data analysis, number sense, and number and operations. Key concepts such as estimation can be explored and…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Animals, Estimation, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Mouse Count
what is data analysis in math books
Series: Book Ideas March 14, 2017

3 Animal Picture Books That Explore Questions About Data

Data analysis uses math to make sense of the world. It is compiling information and describing it in a quantitative way: how many?

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger, Animals, Ann Whitehead Nagda, Graphing, Cindy Bickel, How Many Snails?: A Counting Book, Paul Giganti Jr., Birds, Kevin Henkes
Series: Book Ideas August 4, 2016

The Math in Learning Names

Do the children in your classroom know each other’s names? At winter break, are they still pointing to “that girl?” Doing activities in the early weeks of school that use the children’s own names will…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Juana Martinez-Neal, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Books, Kevin Henkes, Chrysanthemum
Preschool Planning Conversation
Series: Focus on Collaboration October 17, 2015

Planning Conversation for Shoe Graph Lesson

In this planning conversation, a teacher and coach discuss some of their ideas and concerns about a forthcoming lesson. With a coach, she discusses some of her ideas and concerns about the forthcoming lesson.

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Planning, Seasonal, English Language Learner, Books, Graphing, Shoes
Series: Focus on the Child September 4, 2015

Daily Attendance Chart with Child 27

A student explains how his classroom's attendance chart is used.

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Child 27, Attendance
teaching-capacity-in-kindergarten
Series: Focus on the Lesson June 12, 2015

Which Holds More?

This video from our Focus on the Lesson series demonstrates an activity for teaching capacity in kindergarten and preschool. Students look at two containers and try to determine which one would hold more liquid.

  • Topic: Measurement, Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags English Language Learner, Gesture, Capacity
EMTR081-1 3-5 year old childrens education programs graphing for kids what is data analysis
Series: Focus on the Lesson December 17, 2014

Shoe Graph

In this video, students brainstorm ways to sort their shoes. Later, they graphically organize the data from the sets they created.

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags English Language Learner, Books, Graphing, Shoes, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne, Seasonal
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