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Related Activities to Try at Home

Graph Hunt Look for and collect examples of graphs and representations of data. Check newspapers and magazines. Talk about what is represented by the graph. Is it clear? What data, or information, does the graph contain? Encourage your child to make graphs about things that are important to him or her.

Math and Literature Here are some suggestions of children's books that are related to our work on data.

Aber, Linda Williams. Who's Got Spots?

Jocelyn, Marthe. Hannah's Collections.

Leedy, Loreen. The Great Graph Contest.

Ochiltree, Dianne. Bart's Amazing Charts.


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Coins, Number Strings, and Story Problems Unit 2 Attributes of Shapes and Parts of a Whole Unit 3 How Many Stickers? How Many Cents? Unit 4 Pockets, Teeth, and Guess My Rule Unit 5 How Many Tens? How Many Hundreds? Unit 6 How Far Can You Jump? Unit 7 Partners, Teams, and Other Groups Unit 8 Enough for the Class? Enough for the Grade?