Travel Survey-Cooperative Class Activity

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Travel Survey 

Cooperative Class Activity

Looking for a cooperative interactive activity that reinforces collaboration, counting, tally marks and work problems? This simple survey is fun and will have your students getting to know and chatting with each other---at the same time practicing their math skills.

I have found this travel survey useful at the beginning of the year, returning from a long break, on a rainy recess day, etc. You will think of other uses and times depending on your needs.

Another fun way my students have used this graph is not just in our classroom but more school-wide. My students have ‘Buddies’ from an older class and have surveyed them during the times we do activities together. The younger students love that they are able to engage and be the leaders in an activity with their adored older ‘Buddies’.

If you are not able to have a ‘Buddy’ class in your situation, perhaps survey classrooms from same grade level in your school. I have also had the students take their survey papers to recess and ask 10 random students their travel choice. In our school 1^st through 3^rd has recess at the same time. Of course, you can change the number stated on the survey to any number that works best for you.

Other ideas I have tried with this travel survey is using it as homework and simply ask children to survey family members. A few times, as a fun holiday option, I have sent home the survey during break times when larger groups of family members may assemble. This allows the students to interview more people and is a choice activity for them.

Students love to interview and survey on a huge variety of subjects so I have made up similar surveys for them. Most of those I made in Word so my next goal is to transform them into PowerPoint so I can share with others.

 

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Tally Marks are fun! 

Tally marks are fun to teach as well as fun for students. Once they know there is a way to systematically keep track of everything they count, they are off and ready to go. The more data counted, the more activities, such as surveys and graphs you can introduce.

I love to have students take surveys and count items and keeping track of the numbers using tally marks is an easy way to do that. I usually like to use this beginning tally activity as a math center or independent project.

Tally Cards

Animal Cards

Cut apart the 12 animal cards and 12 tally mark cards. I made 2 sets-one with numbers in the corners and another set has no numbers in the corners. When I first made the game, I only had 1 set, those with the numbers in the corners. This ended up being confusing for only the simplistic matching object to tally-so I made the second set with no numbers.

Easy beginning match only game-Use the card set with no numbers in the right-hand corner.

6-10 Animal and tally matches

1-5 Animal and tally matches

1. Flip the pictorial and tally mark cards. Count the tally marks and find the pictorial card that has the same number.

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2. Place the matches next to each other. If you are using the activity in a small group lesson, encourage discussion of why they placed the cards together. In this way, it enables you to assess as well as visually reinforcing the skill.

Another game idea-Use card set with numbers in the corner.

1. Turn over each pictorial card. Check the number in the top right corner and find that number on the pictorial recording sheet. Count the objects on the card and write the tally mark for that number on the recording sheet.

Pictorial tally card recording sheet

2. Turn over the tally mark cards. Check the number in the top right corner and find that number on the tally mark recording sheet. Count the objects on the card and write the tally mark for that number on the recording sheet.

Tally mark recording sheet

3. Use the game as an initial introductory matching tally mark lesson, then use with separate recording sheets and finally it would be used to record both tally and pictorial all on my recording sheet.

4. The game is a good math center game in which students can play either independently or with a partner.

**Challenge idea

1. If you know your students already know how to use tally marks but you want an activity to quickly assess the skill. Then you could use the one recording sheet, which allows you to record both pictorial, and tally marks answers on one sheet.

Recording sheet for both the picture and tally mark cards

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