As you know, we've been learning about Public Art. We found these statistics about Public Art in Calgary. 

81% of Calgarians say that support for Arts is important

89% say they are happy with Calgary's programs for the Arts

83% say we should spend more money on the Arts

Then, we came up with ideas of how to show the younger students in our school these statistics. We're going to put them on our Public Art bulletin board and percentages are tricky to understand so a picture is easier. We focused on this fact:

We brainstormed lots of different ideas as a class like showing base ten blocks, a bar graph, a tally chart, a t-chart, happy faces, etc.  We got to choose a group and make one of these or one of our own. We also made the percentages into fractions so they were easier to understand. We needed to subtract the numerator from the denominator to find the other fraction (the no's). Here are some of the visuals we came up with: 

Then, Ms Elder showed us how to create a pie graph in Excel. This is another way we can show data.