Teacher: Christina Estes
Date: July 17, 2016
Subject/grade level: Math/ 3rd grade
Materials:
  1. Tally O’Malley book by Stuart Murphy and Cynthia Jabar
  2. Dice for each student
  3. 1 copy of “How Many Times Will I Roll?” activity sheet per student
  4. “Tally Chart Unit” slideshow

Essential Standards and Clarifying Objectives:
3.17 The student will (a) collect and organize data, using observations, measurements, surveys, or experiments;
●Understand how data can be collected and organized.
●Understand that data can be displayed in different types of graphs depending on the data
●Understand that data sets can be interpreted and analyzed to draw conclusions.
Lesson Objective:
The students will be introduced to the purpose of collecting data and how to use a tally chart to collect data to be further used in a graph.
Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs
  1. Students needing extra guidance on “How Many Times Will I Roll?” activity will work in partners and with teacher guidance.
  2. Students needing extra challenge, after completing the “How Many Times Will I Roll? activity, will create their own topic and tally sheet based on something in the room that they can count. (Jackie Gulino: Making Math Meaningful)

BEFORE
  1. Show students the image on page 1 of slideshow (Regina Hissong and Allison Weaver: Adding Critical Thinking to Your Questioning)

  1. (Think-Pair-Square-Share: John Strebe - Cooperative Learning)
  2. Think to yourself about the picture, talk to your table partner, talk to your table group, write thoughts from your group on one whiteboard, one person from group share with whole group about the picture.
  3. “This is a type of data collection, what data is being collected in this picture?” baseball game scores

DURING
  1. Read the book Tally O’Malley by Stuart Murphy and Cynthia Jabar (Amanda Dameron: Reading Rocks!)
  2. Put page 3 of Tally Chart Unit slideshow on board

  1. Have students group themselves in the room by the colors of their shirts based on the colors of the tally chart
  2. Once students are grouped, have one student from each group count how many are in the group and come to the board to write that many tally’s in the appropriate column
  3. After all tally’s are in the column, have another student from each group write the totals beside the tally’s
  4. Compare the totals

AFTER/ASSESSMENT
  1. Tally Dice Activity
  2. Students will work independently to roll the dice 30 times and put one tally in each row that matches the number their die is on
  3. After 30 rolls, have students total their columns and compare their results with others in their table group
  4. Observe each student as they work for understanding of tally charts and recording data.