Lunch-box fruit data

Today as part of our Statistics maths unit we gathered data on the fruit that Room 4 had in our lunchboxes.
We began by using tally marks to collate data for the number of pieces of fruit, then the types of fruit.

Later, we compared this information with our favourite types of fruit.  We made several different types of graph using the same data about our favourite fruits.  

Strip graph

Pie graph

We found out that:

• although the most common type of fruit that we are given for lunch is apples, only one student in our class chose apples as their favourite fruit.  Many of the students in Room 4 love strawberries but we realise that this is not the season for strawberries which is one of the reasons why we don't have them in our lunchboxes.
• some students have no fruit on some days.
• it is most common to have one piece of fruit in our lunch boxes

Will these graphs be the same tomorrow? Why/why not?

Friday 16th May
Once again we gathered data about the fruit in our lunchboxes.  Would our graph be the same as yesterday?  Here's what we discovered....

• Today oranges were the most popular
• Still nobody had a banana in their lunch box
• Apples were the second most common fruit in Room 4's lunchbox.
• Apples and oranges seem to be our most common fruit that our parents give us for lunch.