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Grade 2 · Data

Swim-team ribbons: compare counts on a common scale

A survey display at a swimming meet records three category counts: 14 ribbons, 19 ribbons, and 10 ribbons. Change the controls and explain what the animation reveals.

Predict what will happen, press Play, then pause and explain what changed. Every control also works without playback.

Watch the relationship

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Swim-team ribbons: compare counts on a common scale. Items represented now: 0. Final total: 43. Largest final count: 19Final counts: 14, 19, 100A0B0CAll three bars use the same vertical scale.
Counts are fictional nonnegative whole numbers. Categories do not overlap, and each observation contributes to exactly one category. All bars start at zero and share one vertical scale.

Starts paused. Play once, pause anywhere, or use Step to inspect the mathematics. Playback stops when this panel leaves the screen.

Make it your experiment

Change one value. Notice what follows.

The controls adjust the model. Numbers below describe the current frame. Decimals are rounded.

Items represented now
0
Final total
43
Largest final count
19

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Understand what you are seeing

The idea behind the motion.

A survey display at a swimming meet records three category counts: 14 ribbons, 19 ribbons, and 10 ribbons. A bar graph compares category counts using a common baseline and a common vertical scale. The height represents a count; the width of a bar is decoration and does not represent another variable. The largest final category has 19, the smallest has 10, and all categories together contain 43.

A relationship to keep

Total = 14 + 19 + 10 = 43

Read the symbols alongside the explanation. A diagram shows the relationship; the assumptions tell you when it applies.

  1. STEP 1

    Read the starting situation

    A survey display at a swimming meet records three category counts: 14 ribbons, 19 ribbons, and 10 ribbons. Identify what each number measures before changing a control; the worked example refers to these starting values.

  2. STEP 2

    Follow the mathematical change

    Advance the timeline to add the observations to their three categories. Compare the live counts, then inspect the final bar heights on the shared scale. Pause on an intermediate frame and compare the picture with the live readouts.

  3. STEP 3

    Explain and test the relationship

    The largest final category has 19, the smallest has 10, and all categories together contain 43. Change one input, predict its effect, and test whether the same relationship still works.

Your turn to explain

Make a prediction. Test your reasoning.

Swim-team ribbons: use the original situation. A survey display at a swimming meet records three category counts: 14 ribbons, 19 ribbons, and 10 ribbons. How many observations separate the largest and smallest final categories?

Use the values specified in the question. Reset restores the initial values for this investigation.

Compare your explanation

9 observations, found by subtracting 10 from 19. The sum answers a different question.

Work through a full lesson

Connect the animation to a worked example and practice questions.

Grade 2 · Statistics

Read a bar graph with a scale

Interpret bar heights using equally spaced numerical labels.