Subject : Mathematics
Topic : Pie Chart
Level : P6
Duration : 1 hour
Pre-requisite : Pupils are able to express a part as a fraction of a whole.
Specific Instructional Objectives
Pupils will be able to read and interpret pie charts that display numbers.
Thinking Skills
Comparing, Identifying patterns and relationships: Parts-Whole
Learning and Teaching Materials
Learning Environment
Half laboratory
Instructional Strategies
1. Pupils to work in pairs on the worksheet, which revises the part-whole concept. [10 min]
2. Tell pupils the purpose of using the courseware (i.e. to see how part-whole is represented in a pie chart). Also need to briefly explain what a spreadsheet is as this will be covered in the courseware as well. Pupils are to go to 'Tutorial', then select 'No.3, Cruncher Bars'. Get pupils to work in pairs, one is to change the number of health bars sold (from 10 to 30 to 50) and the other is to note changes relative to others in the pie chart. [10min]
3. The pair then discusses on how they reproduce as accurately as they could the pie charts on the worksheet. [25min]
4. Pupils do workbook exercise 1 individually. [10min]
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Prepared by:
Chen Chee Yam
Nan Chiau High School
Pie Chart
Name : ___________________________( )
Class : ____________ Date:______________
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