Making an edible bar chart

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by Susan

We started off our maths topic on charts by looking at the numbers of each colour in a Smarties tube. You can’t beat edible maths! We used this worksheet from Twinkl to try out a tally chart and then a bar chart.

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Maths | Maths games

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