Interpret data in tables

Learn with an example

Jen looked in the kitchen cupboards and found some teapots and cups. She made a table of the items she found:

🖋️Which item did she find fewer of?

  • Find the number of each item in the table. She found 5 teapots and 1 cup. She found fewer cups.

Pam asked her classmates to vote for their favourite zoo animal. She made a table showing how many people voted for each animal:

🖋️Which animal got more votes?

  • Find the number of hippos in the table. 10 people voted for hippos.
  • Find the number of lions in the table. 3 people voted for lions.
  • More people voted for hippos.

Sue went to the local hardware store and bought some rakes and nails. She made a table of the items she bought:

🖋️How many rakes  did she buy?

 _______rakes

  • Find the number of rakes in the table. She bought 10 rakes.

Let’s practice!