While making a lesson plan on introducing Data handling, a middle school mathematics teacher thought of formulating a four-step process for Data handling. The four-steps are given in random order. (a) Collecting the data (b) Interpreting the results (c) Formulating the questions (d) Analysing the data Which of the following represents the correct order of process?

Option 3 : (c), (a), (d), (b)

Data handling is considered to be one of the important topics in mathematics. This topic should be clearly taught to students from the primary stage itself because this has a lot of applications in daily life. 

• Formulating the questions will be the first step in data handling a topic for the teacher to make a lesson plan because first, the questions have to be formulated in order to recognize the objective of the topic and motivate the students.
• Collecting the data will be the second step after formulating the questions because data is an important aspect of the whole topic of data handling.
• Once the data is collected it should be analyzed properly which means that the data should be broken into many parts and thoroughly understood if it is the correct one and suits the given context.
• Interpreting the results will be the last step as the whole process has been completed now the correct results can be compared with the current existing results so that improvement can be planned for the next sessions.

Hence (c), (a), (d), (b) will be the correct sequence.