The purpose of this activity is for students to learn a new way of organizing data: a picture graph. In the Launch, students engage in a discussion about what they notice about the graph and how a picture graph makes it easier to interpret data. After students discuss the picture graph and consider what they could learn from the graph, ask: “¿Cuál es el número total de niños a los que les encanta el baloncesto o el béisbol?” // “What is the total number of children who love basketball or baseball?” This question uses “or” to signify the sum of the two categories. This phrasing may be new for students.

• “¿Puedes explicar cómo encontraste el número total de adultos a los que les gusta el fútbol americano o el baloncesto?” // “Can you explain how you found the total number of adults who like football or baseball?”
• “¿Dónde ves esto en la gráfica?” // “Where do you see this in the graph?”

• Display “Sports Adults Love” graph.
• “¿A cuántos adultos más les gusta el fútbol americano que el baloncesto? Expliquen cómo lo saben” // “How many more adults like football than basketball? Explain how you know.” (6 more adults like football than basketball. I saw there were 2 for basketball, so I counted the footballs above 2. I did , because there were 8 votes for football and 2 for basketball.)
• 30 seconds: quiet think time
• Share and record responses

The purpose of this activity is for students to interpret data represented in a picture graph. Students make sense of questions related to the context and decide whether questions can be answered with the data. This type of reasoning helps students make sense of the mathematical elements in a context and interpret and use the data presented in the picture graph to answer questions (MP4). When students read the graph and use methods based on addition and subtraction or those based on counting on or back from the pictures in the graph, they reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2).

If students combine categories when they should find the difference between them, consider asking:

• “¿Cómo decidiste juntar estos dos grupos? ¿Cómo corresponde esto a la pregunta?” // “How did you decide to combine these two groups? How does this match the question?”
• “¿Cómo te puede ayudar la gráfica a pensar en cuántos más escogieron marcadores?” // “How could the graph help you think about how many more chose markers?”

• “¿Qué pregunta decidieron que no podía responderse? Expliquen” // “Which question did you decide couldn’t be answered? Explain.” (We don’t know why so many children chose paint. The graph shows how many, but not their reasons.)
• Invite previously identified students to share responses for the questions that asked them to combine categories or compare categories.