Teaching Presentation: Units of time, record data and interpret ( Year 4 Measures and Data )

This presentation provides two days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Units of time
• Timing events and recording data
• Interpret results
  It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.

Day 1 Teaching
Four children write their name 20 times and four others time them. Record times in a table. Discuss how we can draw a bar chart to represent this data. What scale shall we have? Try 1 step = 5 or 10 seconds. Which will fit on the page but not look too small? Discuss and draw a bar chart. Discuss questions that could be asked about the data. Children then write their name 10 times and record the time.

Day 2 Teaching
Show children the table showing the number of children that were born in the first 7 months of the year. Discuss this. Say that we will represent this information in a pictogram – one picture represents four units. Draw this together.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 4 Measures and Data block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.