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15 minutes · Interpret a count table and compare two days.

Explain how the feeder counts changed from Tuesday to Thursday.

TuesdaySparrows 8Jays 1Finches 4ThursdaySparrows 3Jays 1Finches 9
Feeder counts. Students counted for 15 minutes each day.

Finches increased from 4 to 9, while sparrows decreased from 8 to 3. Jays stayed at 1. The table shows a change in who visited, not why the birds changed.

The words increased, decreased, and stayed match the counts.