📈 Data: Collection & Representation
This quiz focuses on Grade 2 data literacy skills: collecting and organizing data through counting, creating and reading tally charts, pictographs, and bar graphs, and interpreting what data tells us. You'll practice sorting objects, asking and answering questions about data, and understanding which category has the most or least. **What you'll learn:** - How to collect data by counting and organizing objects - How to create and read tally charts, pictographs, and bar graphs - How to find the most, least, and compare quantities in data displays - How to sort and classify objects into categories - How to interpret simple data displays and answer questions
Questions in this quiz
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- Question 1
Maria wants to know what fruit her classmates like best. She asks 10 friends to pick their favourite: apple, banana, or orange. What is Maria doing?
- Question 2
Look at this tally chart of favourite pets:
Dog: |||| || Cat: |||| Fish: |||
How many people like dogs best?
- Question 3
A pictograph uses pictures or symbols to show data instead of just numbers.
- Question 4
In a pictograph about favourite colours, each ☺ = 2 children. If 4 smileys are shown for red, how many children chose red?
- Question 5
Which of these is the BEST way to organize a group of buttons by colour?
- Question 6
Look at this bar graph of books read:
Sally: ████████ John: ████ Emily: ██████
Who read the most books?
- Question 7
You count the sports played by 12 students:
- Soccer: 5 students
- Basketball: 3 students
- Tennis: 4 students
How many MORE students play soccer than basketball?
- Question 8
A tally chart is a good way to keep track of information as you count.
- Question 9
In a class survey about favourite snacks:
- Crackers: 6 votes
- Cookies: 9 votes
- Fruit: 5 votes
Which snack got the LEAST votes?
- Question 10
You are sorting toy cars into groups by colour. You have 8 red cars and 12 blue cars. How many cars do you have altogether?
- Question 11
Which question can you answer by looking at a bar graph of 'Favourite Ice Cream Flavours'?
- Question 12
If a pictograph shows that 3 hearts equal the votes for 'red cars', and you see 6 hearts for 'blue cars', then more people chose blue cars.
- Question 13
Mrs. Chen's class made a tally to show how many students brought lunch vs. bought lunch:
Brought lunch: |||| |||| || Bought lunch: |||| |
How many fewer students bought lunch than brought lunch?
- Question 14
You collect data by counting how many of each shape your classmates drew:
Circles: 7 Squares: 5 Triangles: 4
Which two shapes together equal the number of circles?
- Question 15
You are making a pictograph to show how many pets your classmates have. You decide each ◆ = 2 pets. If 5 diamonds are shown for 'dogs', what does that mean?
- Question 16
A bar graph with taller bars makes it easy to see which category has the most.