How to Use Tables in Math

Imagine these 9 flowers bloom in your garden!

$flowers$

🤔 Which color of flower do you have the most of?

👉 One way to find out is to make a table!

$table of flowers$

With a table, we can easily see how many of each flower is in your garden.

⭐ Tables organize data in rows and columns.

Tables have labels that tell you about what the data is showing.

What labels do you see in the flower table?

$table$

That's right: Color and Number.

👉 This table has 2 columns and 4 rows.

Using the table, can you figure out how many green flowers there are?

That's right, there are 4!

You've just learned how to read a table.

Tip: tables are also called spreadsheets.

Now, let's look at how to make a table!

Sam turns over ten cards from a deck. The suits of the cards are:

$suit of cards$

How can we show the suits of the cards that Sam found?

We make a table!

👉 The first step is to create the table. The labels of our columns are "Suit" and "Number."

$table$

👉 Let's count the number of cards for each suit. Then we write the numbers in our table.

$number of cards$

That's it!

Congratulations! 🤗 You can now create and read tables!

Start the practice to see if you got it. 👇

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