Chapter 11 — Data Handling

It is about Data Handling. Children learn to collect information, organise it in tables, show it in a picture graph (pictograph), and compare numbers using more, less, or equal.

Children look at a picture of children choosing colours and count how many like Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. They fill in a table and then answer questions such as which colour is liked the most and which is liked the least.

Children look at a picture of a fruit party and count how many children are eating each fruit — apple, guava, banana, orange, and kiwi. They complete a table and answer questions about the most liked and least liked fruits.

Children take a completed table about how students travel to school and draw a face symbol for each student in a chart. One face equals one student, so the row with the most faces shows the most popular mode of transport.

The five modes are on-foot, autorickshaw, bus, bike, and bicycle. Children record the number of students using each mode and then represent it in a pictograph.

The five games are Gilli-danda, Kabaddi, Pithu, Football, and Cricket. Children fill in how many students like each game and draw faces to make a pictograph.

Children ask their own classmates about the vegetable they like the most and record the answers in a table. They also ask how many people live in each friend's home and fill in another table with those numbers.

Children visit nearby families to find out whether grandparents live with them — both grandparents, only the female grandparent, only the male grandparent, or no grandparents. They record the counts in a table and answer questions about the totals.

Children use more than, less than, and equal to. For example, they write whether the number of children who like guava is more than, less than, or equal to the number who like apple.

They look at the numbers in the table and find the biggest number (most liked) and the smallest number (least liked), then write the matching colour, fruit, or game in the blank.

Both. Some activities show a picture and ask children to count and record. Other activities ask children to survey their own classmates and fill in the table with the real answers they collect.

It builds the skill of representing data visually. When children draw one face for each student, they can see at a glance which row has more faces and which has fewer, making comparison easy.

The chapter uses both tables (rows and columns with numbers) and a pictograph (a chart with face symbols). Children move from filling in a table to drawing the same data as a pictograph.

It is for Class 2 students, who are around 7 years old. The language and activities are kept simple, using familiar things like favourite colours, fruits, games, and ways of coming to school.