Friday, October 17, 2008

Homework 16th October 2008

How many words in a sentence?

This activity will help you to sort data into groups, draw a graph and interpret the results.
You will need a book, plain paper, squared paper, a pencil and a ruler.

Open your book at the beginning of a chapter and count the number of words in the first sentence. Record the number on the plain paper.

Count the number of words in the next sentence and record it. Repeat until you have counted the words in over 50 sentences.

Draw a frequency table and group the data into sentences with 1–4 words, 5–8 words, 9–12 words, and so on. Count how many sentences belong to each category and write the numbers in the table. For example:

Number of words in the sentence
Frequency
1–4 2
5–8 7
9–12 11
13–16 13
17–20 19
more than 20 7

Draw a pictogram to show the results. Use a ruler to draw the axes and remember your key.


Pentagons.
This week you have been learning about pie charts
Number of words in the sentence
Frequency
1–4 2
5–8 3
9–12 3
13–16 6
17–20 1
more than 20 1

Draw around a round object and divide into 16. Create a pie chart to represent the information above.

Write about what you can tell from your graph. Both groups, if you have time, repeat the activity for a different book. Compare your results.

Learn your tables.
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Your homework will be due in on Tuesday.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mr Booth It's Dominic I Like the website. But I think you could funky it up a bit by

Fairisle Junior School said...

Thanks Dominic. I look forward to seeing your suggestions being used on your website that you created last year. You could create a hyperlink to the year group web site from you site! :) See you Monday.