Data Analysis and Measurement

Even as toddlers, children use data to organize and make sense of their world. Without the ability to classify and organize their world children would find it difficult, if not impossible, to make sense of it. Let’s discuss some concepts involved with data that children explore in the early years.

• Measurement of data
• Use of appropriate materials to analyze data
• Predicative use of data (probability)
• Beginning concepts of probability including estimation

Why is Data Analysis so Important?

Children who have adequate data analysis skills also tend to be better at:

• Organizing, classifying and sorting information
• Comparing attributes among groups
• General problem solving

In this resource we will explore this strand of early math in detail.

Skills You Gain From Data analysis and Representation

Skill 1 : data representations in the early years