ICSE Class 7 Maths, Unit 6: Data Handling
From the CISCE curriculum. 4 key concepts, about 2 days of study at 20 to 30 minutes a day.
What this unit aims at
Finding a representative value for a given set of observations called data is a necessary requirement in most of the daily life situations, like one number for heights of the children in a class, number of children in a class when numbers of total children in all classes of the school is known etc. This theme aims at developing children’s understanding about the meaning and use of averages like mean, median and mode of simple data not having more than 15 observations. They will also be able to represent data as bar graphs and interpret them.
Your child should be able to
- find various representative values (Mean, Median and mode) for simple data from her daily life
- represent data by simple bar graphs and interpret them
Key concepts in this unit
- Collection and organisation of data – choosing the data to collect for a hypothesis testing
- Mean, median and mode of ungrouped data – understanding what they represent
- Constructing and interpreting bar graphs
- Feel of probability using data through experiments. Notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice etc. Tabulating and counting occurrences of 1 through 6 in a number of throws. Comparing the ob…
Teach this unit at home
- A day-by-day plan from the CISCE concepts, so you know what to cover each day.
- A step-by-step script for each day, so you know what to say and ask (AI-written from the CISCE curriculum, so check it against your child's school book).
- A quiz at the end.
From the CISCE Curriculum for Classes I to VIII (2016). CISCE sets what is taught, not the textbooks, so schools use different books and there are no page numbers here. Adhian Gurus is not affiliated with CISCE.