Class 6 Mathematics — Chapter 4: DATA HANDLING AND PRESENTATION

What you'll learn

• ▸Understanding and Defining Data
• ▸Collecting and Organizing Raw Data
• ▸Using Tally Marks for Organization
• ▸Creating and Reading Frequency Tables
• ▸Arranging Data in Ascending Order
• ▸Introduction to Pictographs
• ▸Interpreting Pictographs with a Scale
• ▸Drawing a Pictograph

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- 4 DATA HANDLING AND PRESENTATION 0674CH04 If you ask your classmates about their favourite colours, you will get a list of colours. This list is an example of data. Similarly, if you measure the weight of each student in your class, you would get a collection of measures of weight—again data. Any collection of facts, numbers, measures, observations or other descriptions of things that convey *information* about those things is called **data**. We live in an age of *information*. We constantly see large amounts of data presented to us in new and interesting ways. In this chapter, we will explore some of the ways that data is presented, and how we can use some of those ways to correctly display, interpret and make inferences from such data! 4.1 Collecting and Organising Data Navya and Naresh are discussing their favourite games. Cricket is my I play cricket sometimes favourite game! but hockey is the gam…

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5. In the tally mark system used by Shri Nilesh, what does the symbol 'ℶ' represent? Get Solution →
6. What is a pictograph? Get Solution →
7. In a pictograph, what is the purpose of the 'scale' or 'key'? Get Solution →
8. In the 'Modes of Travelling' pictograph, what does one '😊' symbol represent? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 Humans create over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day.
• 💡 Ancient Mesopotamians used clay tablets to record the first known data over 5,000 years ago.
• 💡 The Fibonacci sequence, a special number pattern, appears frequently in pinecones and sunflowers.
• 💡 The world's longest recorded statistical survey on family life lasted for over 70 years.
• 💡 Every time you click online, you are adding to the world's vast ocean of digital data.

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