What one question would you most like to ask our class? Something with just a few answers to choose from.

Here is the whole data cycle run once, for the question What is your favourite season? First the tally, then a bar chart made from the same counts. See how each tally count matches the height of its bar, and look for the answer that came out on top.

Which bar is tallest? That answer is the mode. Now the last step: turn that mode into a chance sentence. Because most of the class chose that answer, the next person is likely to choose it too. Not certain, just likely, because it had the most.

Now we run the cycle live for our own class. First we put our chosen question and its answers up here on the board. Then a quick show of hands for each answer fills the tally row by row on screen. When the tally is full, we read down it together to see which answer came out on top.