Three daily lessons
Unit 13
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Handling Data
This Unit Plan is designed to guide
your teaching.
Year 3
You will need to adapt it to meet the
needs of your class.
Summer term
Unit Objectives
Year 3
Resources needed to teach this unit:
Pages 92-93
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Solve a given problem by organising and interpreting
data in Venn and Carroll diagrams – one criterion.
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Set of 2 D shapes and /or logic
blocks.
2 Hoops
2 P.E. Maths.
Resource Sheets
Link Objectives
Year 4
Year 2
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Solve simple problems by sorting
classifying and organising information
in a table, a pictogram, or block
graph.
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Solve a given problem by collecting,
classifying, representing and interpreting
data in Venn and Carroll diagrams – two
criteria.
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R.S. 13.1
R.S.13.2
R.S.13.3
R.S.13.4
R.S.13.5
OHT 13.1
Planning Sheet
Day 1
Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 13: Handling Data
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Main Teaching
Teaching Activities
Objectives and Vocabulary
Suggest an outdoor
activity such as
counting and star
jumping.
Solve a given problem
by organising and
interpreting data in a
Venn diagram – one
criterion.
Vocabulary
Venn diagram
Sort
Criterion
Resources
R.S. 13.1
R.S.13.2
Large open space
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Teaching Activities
Take children to playground. Draw two large
circles in chalk and label them can swim /
cannot swim.
(Choose own criterion if preferred).
Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
Plenary
Discuss solutions.
Explain that the school is trying to organise
swimming lessons and needs to know who can
or cannot swim.
Q Where will we put
13? Why did you
decide to put it there.
Record on large
whiteboard.
Ask the children to go in the appropriate circle.
Extend to 3 digit nos.
Count how many are in each circle.
153, 1000
200
254 etc.
Ask questions such as
How many more/less children can swim than
can’t?
cant
Can more boys swim than girls?
How many more boys can swim than girls?
Return to classroom.
Ask the children to put their names in prepared
circles labelled blue eyes / not blue eyes.
(See R.S.1. for alternative criteria).
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Q Can anyone think of
a whole number which
does not fit into either
circle?
If not why not?
By the end of the
lesson the children
should be able to
sort data onto a
Venn Diagram
using one criterion.
Planning Sheet
Day 1 contin.
Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 13: Handling Data
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Main Teaching
Teaching Activities
Objectives and Vocabulary
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Teaching Activities
Give children R.S.2. and ask them to sort a given
set of numbers into multiple of 5 / not a multiple
of 5.
Use nos (written up)
e.g. 13, 10, 52, 25, 70 17
53, 45, 95, 14, 57, 19, 55 etc
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Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
Planning Sheet
Day 2
Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 13: Handling Data
Term: Summer
Main Teaching
Teaching Activities
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Objectives and Vocabulary
Teaching Activities
Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
Solve a given problem
by organising and
interpreting data onto a
Carroll diagram.
(one criterion)
In either hall or playground draw two boxes
touching
(or use two P.E. mats.)
Plenary
Show Venn diagram
with children’s names
on from Day One.
Label them triangle / not triangle.
Give each child a shape and ask them to put
them in the right box according to the criterion.
Vocabulary
Carroll diagram
Sort
Criterion
Resources
2D shapes
R.S.13.3.
Ask how we could put
this information onto a
Carroll diagram . Label
columns
Discuss
Ask questions such as what does not triangle
mean ? What is in this box? Why?
Blue eyes / not blue
eyes
Ask where the names
should go.
Ask them to sort themselves into boy / not boy –
discuss.
Ask them to sort themselves into has a brother /
does not have a brother.
RETURN TO CLASSROOM
Give out R.S.13.3
Ask children to label each column
Odd
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Not odd
Repeat with multiples
of 5 from Day One.
Transfer the
information from Venn
diagram to Carroll
diagram on OHT made
from R.S. 13.3
Planning Sheet
Day 2
Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 13: Handling Data
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Main Teaching
Teaching Activities
Objectives and Vocabulary
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Teaching Activities
Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
Discuss what is meant by not odd. Ask for
examples.
Ask children to sort numbers
e.g.
21, 12, 49, 94, 50, 91,
37, 73, 41, 14, 32, 23, etc.
Extension – 3 digit nos.
234, 123, etc.
By the end of the
lesson the pupils
will be able to
sort data onto a
Carroll diagram
according to one
criterion.
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Planning Sheet
Day 3
Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 13: Handling Data
Term: Summer
Main Teaching
Teaching Activities
Objectives and Vocabulary
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Teaching Activities
Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
Plenary
Solve a given problem
by organising and
interpreting data on a
Venn diagram – two
criteria.
Vocab
Venn diagram
Carroll diagram
Intersection overlap
Resources
O.H.T 13.1
R.S. 13.5
Logic blocs or 2D
shapes.
On carpet or in playground / hall.
On O.H.T.13.1 label
Ask children to choose a shape from logic blocks. circles multiple of 3 /
even numbers.
Ask some children to describe their shape.
Number the children 1
to 30.
Revise sorting into 2 sets (circles) 4 sided / not 4
sided.
Ask each child where
Change criterion and sort again. Repeat twice
to put their number.
more.
Point out that some
numbers do not go in
Now ask two children to sort them into red
either circle.
shapes and triangles.
Discuss why.
Q. Have you got all the triangles in Hoop A?
Point out that the
outside rectangle is
Q. Have you got all the red shapes in Hoop B.
part of the Venn
diagram.
Q. How can we put the red triangles in both
hoops if we only have one hoop for red shapes
By the end of the
and one for triangles?
lesson the children
Point out we need all the triangles in Hoop A and
all the red shapes in Hoop B.
If children do not come up with overlapping the
hoops ask them to put the red circles as near to
Hoop B as possible – still keeping it in Hoop A.
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will be able to sort
data according to 2
criteria onto a Venn
diagram
Planning Sheet
Day 3
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Oral and Mental
Objectives and
Vocabulary
Unit 1: Handling Data
Teaching Activities
Objectives and Vocabulary
Year Group: 3
Plenary
Teaching Activities
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Teaching Activities/Focus
Questions
If all else fails the teacher could overlap the
hoops for them.
Explain that the overlapping part is called the
INTERSECTION .
Ask which shapes they think will go in the
intersection.
Ask pupils to describe the shapes in each area.
i.e. red shapes/ not triangles
red triangles
triangles /not red
not red/ not triangular
Repeat with other criteria
Circles / thick shapes
4 sided / blue
Task
Give the children R.S.13.4. (Venn Diagram with 2
intersecting circles)
Ask them to sort the numbers to 30 into
Set A – Multiples of 3
Set B - Even nos.
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