Maths with Statistics

We used our leaf collection to carry out a maths investigation.  We decided to find out some information about the Autumn leaves in the St Mary's school playground.  To do this we needed to do some sorting or grouping. Some of us grouped according to size, some used colour and some used shape as their category.  Then we made a tally chart and a picture graph of what we found.

We found a lot of different information and then we had to comment on what we noticed.  We wrote a conclusion which stated things like...

*there are many red leaves in the St Mary's playground
*most of my leaves were brown because it is Autumn and the leaves are dying
*some of our leaves were green because some trees are evergreen and don't lose their leaves in Autumn
*a few of my leaves were yellow, they were not dead but they were dying

Today we used our leaves to make some super Autumn art.  We looked on Pinterest to get some ideas, then made a decision about what we wanted to make and what we would need to do it.