Warning: the following post is based on an anecdote, not a random sample.
My five year old children produced a pictogram - that's what they called
it - at school.
They asked everyone in their class to choose their favourite animal
(from a choice of 4) and recorded the answers (so teaching them about
doing surveys...).
Then, on a chart on the wall, they put stickers corresponding to the
number of choices next to a picture of that animal.
Then they could use the chart to see which animal was the most popular.
This was a bog-standard state school.
Mike
Rachel Gladstone wrote:
> For instance, first you set up a grid labeled with letters and numbers
> and get the child to position fun shapes on the grid. Then perhaps you
> grow sunflowers and get the children to record their height against
> time. And so on. Yet I've not yet seen this in schools for very young
> children (perhaps I'm just missing what's there, I'd like to think so).
--
Mike Brewer
Programme Director, Direct Tax and Welfare
Institute for Fiscal Studies, www.ifs.org.uk, 020 72914800
******************************************************************
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is registered in London,
Company number 954616, limited by guarantee.
Registered Office: 7 Ridgmount Street, London. WC1E 7AE
IFS is a registered charity, number 258815
Please note that the IFS may monitor email traffic data as well
as the content of email.
******************************************************************
******************************************************
Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your
message will go only to the sender of this message.
If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's
'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically
to [log in to unmask]
Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk.
*******************************************************
|