Combine getting to know one another and math with a worksheet that focuses on graphing birthdays. Scholars collect data to discover how many peers share birthday months and fill in a bar graph for visual representation.    

Concepts

getting to know you, the first day of school, birthdays, bar graphs, months of the year

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• In each box, direct pupils to write their peers' name and birth date to make the graph also work as a calendar 
• Display finished products at Back-to-School Night 
• Analyze the data and discuss everyone's findings when complete 

Classroom Considerations

• Requires copies
• The activity is the seventh of eight back-to-school resources

Pros

• The worksheet encourages dialogue and data collection 
• The overall design of the page is neatly organized 

Cons

• None

Common Core

2.MD.D.10 3.MD.B.3