Data Handling
Data Handling: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Data Handling, Collection of Data, Advantages of Data Handling and, Recording Data using Tally Marks
Important Questions on Data Handling
Choose the best survey question to find out people's favourite sport.

Choose the best question to find out often people watch TV.

How many stickers did Jack get in the whole week?
Day | Tally |
Monday | |
Tuesday | |
Wednesday | |
Thursday | |
Friday |
Next week, Jack will get more stickers each day than he did the week before. Fill in the table.
Day | Tally | Total |
Monday | ||
Tuesday | ||
Wednesday | ||
Thursday | ||
Friday |

Jack tallied the number of stickers he got.
Day | Tally |
Monday | |
Tuesday | |
Wednesday | |
Thursday | |
Friday |
Finish the graph for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The number of stickers Jack got when sticker.
Wed | Thurs | Fri |

Jack tallied the number of stickers he got.
Day | Tally |
Monday | |
Tuesday | |
Wednesday | |
Thursday | |
Friday |
Finish the graph for Tuesday.
The number of stickers Jack got.
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Mon | Tues |

Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine |
Make a frequency table showing the number of letters in the words above. Count how many letters are in each word and make a tally to show how many letters in each word. Then write the total for each column.
Number of letters in word | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine |
Tally | |||||||
Total |

Look at the table.
The day Jack got the most stickers was:
Day | Tally | Total |
Monday | ||
Tuesday | ||
Wednesday | ||
Thursday | ||
Friday |

Jack tallied the number of stickers he got. Fill in the totals.
Day | Tally | Total |
Monday | ||
Tuesday | ||
Wednesday | ||
Thursday | ||
Friday |

Balu has saved and coins in his kiddy bank. Now his kiddy bank is full and he wanted to count the number of each coin separately.
How will he do this in an easy way

Neha and Ashu have decided to count the number of vehicles crossing from Neha's house between in the evening.
Neha and Ashu have learnt about collection of data in their mathematics class. They made a table and started counting the vehicles that passed by Neha's house.
Name of the Vehicle | Tally Marks | Number |
Motorcycle | ||
Jeep | ||
Bus | ||
Car |
See the above table and answer the given question:
Which vehicle has crossed the least? Name it.

Neha and Ashu have decided to count the number of vehicles crossing from Neha's house between in the evening.
Neha and Ashu have learnt about collection of data in their mathematics class. They made a table and started counting the vehicles that passed by Neha's house.
Name of the Vehicle | Tally Marks | Number |
Motorcycle | ||
Jeep | ||
Bus | ||
Car |
See the above table and answer the given question:
During this time, how many vehicles crossed from Neha's house?

Neha and Ashu have decided to count the number of vehicles crossing from Neha's house between in the evening.
Neha and Ashu have learnt about collection of data in their mathematics class. They made a table and started counting the vehicles that passed by Neha's house.
Name of the Vehicle | Tally Marks | Number |
Motorcycle | ||
Jeep | ||
Bus | ||
Car |
See the above table and answer the given question:
How many motorcycles crossed from Neha's house between in the evening?

Sports items made by manufactures in a month | |
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represents cricket bats,
represents hockey sticks and
represents footballs.
The total number of cricket bats made by manufacturer is _____.

Complete the following table.
Number of pupils interested | ||
Game | Tally marks | Number of boys |
Cricket | ||
Football | ||
Star | ||
Kho - kho | ||
Chess |

Write the number for the following tally marks.

Write the number for the following tally marks.

Write the number for the following tally marks.

Write the number for the following tally marks.

Write the tally marks for the following number.

children of class , expressed their pets in their homes as follows:
cat dog hen dog goat cat hen dog goat cat
hen dog goat hen dog cat goat hen dog cat
dog hen cat goat goat cat cat hen dog hen
Complete the table:
Pets | Tally marks | Number |
Cat | ||
Dog | ||
Hen | ||
Goat |
