Good day! For today, you will learn another way to organize data in a table. But this time you do not need to list all the
individual values but you only count the number of times the data appear in a data set.
Consider the tally sheets and board below and answer the questions that follow.
Tally Sheet for a Class Election
Do you still recall how the votes are counted during class elections?
Blank Tally Chart – Bing images
Tally Sheet for Local Election
Were you with your parents when they visited the school to take a vote for the
candidates during a barangay or municipal election?
Bing
Tally Board for the National Election
Have you ever watched how the votes of the national election are being
presented to many viewers?
election tally board – Bing images
It is important, during elections that the data or the count of votes are presented to the viewers in a way that they
can easily observe the status of the election results. Using a tally sheet or tally board is a way to organize the counting of
votes.
D. Development (Time Frame: 100 minutes)
WHAT IS FREQUENCY?
Frequency is the number of times an observation or a particular value appears in a data set.
WHAT IS FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION?
A frequency distribution is a table that shows the frequencies for the categories, values of a counting variable or class
intervals.
Let us consider the following portion of the table.
Class interval Tally Frequency
16 – 20 IIII – II 7
CLASS INTERVAL
In the table above, the class interval is 16 – 20. Its class size is 5 because there are 5 values that the interval may contain,
specifically 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. ​
