Max Maths, Year 1, Maths Challenge, Reading and making pictographs

The 'Max Maths, Year 1, Maths Challenge' provides an engaging activity for young learners to understand and interpret pictographs by examining weather patterns. The challenge presents two pictographs, one showing the weather in July and the other in August. These visual representations help children to compare the number of rainy and sunny days in each month. The first question asks students to calculate the difference in the number of rainy days between August and July, requiring them to count the symbols representing rainy days in each pictograph and then subtract the smaller number from the larger one.

The second question shifts the focus to sunny days, asking students to determine how many fewer sunny days there were in August compared to July. This task involves a similar process of counting and comparing the sunny day symbols in the two pictographs. For the third question, children must use their subtraction skills to figure out how many days in August were neither sunny nor rainy. They'll need to subtract the total number of sunny and rainy days from the total number of days in August, which is 31. To complete these tasks and potentially explore more related activities, students are directed to workbook pages 198 to 201.