Curriculum focus
Chapter 8B · Frequency Tables and Tallies
Students organise raw data, interpret frequency, work with individual values and grouped intervals, and check that frequency totals match the number of observations.
Prepared lesson plan and Gamma teaching presentation for Lesson 2 of the eight-lesson Year 8 Statistics sequence at Wallan Secondary College.
Status: taught 7 October 2026; formative assessment identified omissions of tally marks, informing consolidation and subsequent teaching.
Chapter 8B · Frequency Tables and Tallies
Students organise raw data, interpret frequency, work with individual values and grouped intervals, and check that frequency totals match the number of observations.
Retrieval → I DO → WE DO → YOU DO → independent practice
The presentation is designed for live iPad projection and Apple Pencil modelling. Groups-of-five tally marks are drawn manually rather than generated by presentation software.
The Gamma presentation is the visual teaching resource prepared for this lesson. It includes retrieval from Lesson 1, learning intentions and success criteria, frequency-table modelling, textbook Example 4, guided and independent practice, answer-reveal cards, family-size data and a tennis frequency-table problem.
Open STATISTICS — Investigation 02 in Gamma →
Understand tallying as a counting tool, interpret tallies, and construct tally and frequency tables from data.
Organise raw data, identify frequency, use values and grouped intervals, and verify totals.
The resource uses the Year 8 Statistics 8B textbook examples and questions selected for modelling, guided practice and independent practice.
Chunked worked examples, colour-coded tables, wait time, targeted teacher check-ins, paired checking and extension problem solving.
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