NARRATOR: Hello you three, what are you doing?
ALIENS: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: Ah, youâre trying to count up all your different meebs. Some of them are a big âenergeticâ arenât they?
Maybe you should write down how many youâve got.
Snoot, why donât you count the blue jumping meebs.
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: Finn, you count up the red racing meebs.
ALIEN: Alien language)
NARRATOR: And Plimble, you count up the green stacking meebs.
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: So, how many meebs do you have?
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: I see youâve used a tally to count them, Snoot. Your tally shows 5, 10, 11, 12 blue jumping meebs.
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: And your tally Finn, shows 24 red racing meebs.
ALIEN: Hello.
NARRATOR: And Plimble, your tally shows 38 green stacking meebs. Thatâs a lot of meebs.
I think youâd better write down all of these numbers in one place, so you donât lose them. Letâs see what youâve got SnootâŠ
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: Very nice, youâve drawn up a table showing the types of meebs on the left, and the number of each type on the right.
ALIEN: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: Thatâs great Finn, a bar graph with the types of meebs along the bottom, and numbers of meebs up the left.
The taller the bar, the bigger the number.
What about you Plimble?
ALIEN: Plimble!
NARRATOR: Thatâs awesome! A pie chart showing different types of meebs as slices of pie.
Thatâs a great way of showing how the total number of meebs divides up. The bigger the slice, the more meebs it has.
ALIENS: (Alien language)
NARRATOR: Okay, thereâs no need to argue, youâve all done really well.
Snoot's table shows how many meebs there are in simple numbers.
Finn's bar graph, shows those numbers as different-sized bars.
And Plimble's pie chart shows those same numbers as different sizes slices of pie.
These are just three different ways of organising the same data.
ALIENS: Ah ha!
NARRATOR: Oh dear, the meebs are on the loose! I think we may need a re-count.