Table interpretation resources

Students answer four questions about flight times on a flight schedule.

Students use a table of information to answer questions about descriptions of different substances.

Students use the Beaufort Scale, found on the Met Service website, to answer questions about wind speed.

Students interpret a work schedule to answer questions about starting, finishing, and the total number of hours worked.

Students answer questions and calculate percentages from a frequency table of tree heights.

Students answer questions about a table showing hair and eye colour of students. Calculation is required.

Students use tables, graphs, and equations to find the break-even point for two companies who charge for postage according to different rules.

Students interpret a train timetable and answer questions about departure and arrival, and journey times.

Students interpret a tally chart showing the number of times the phone rang each day for one week.

Students answer questions and make time calculations based on a camp timetable.

Students answer five questions interpreting data on temperature decrease in three different types of cups.

Answer questions about a table comparing the energy usage and lifespan of different sorts of lights, and use this information to complete a second table to describe advantages and disadvantages of each. Assessment focus: reading a technical table.

Answer questions about rubbish picked up on a beach, and suggest reasons why plastic is the most common rubbish.

Students interpret a table on the properties of plastics by answering a series of short questions.

Task: Identify patterns in a table and suggest ways to make a toy travel further. Assessment focus: interpreting data; energy; forces.

Students interpret information about unnamed planets and their length of year to answer questions about their distance from the Sun and the order of these planets from the Sun.

Students are provided with data showing the temperature and the cloud cover over a one week period. Students use this information to identify the two nights that would be the best to protect plants outside from possible frost damage and also to identify why protection is needed on such nights.

Students use a table about properties of different materials to answer questions about this, and to group the materials listed into two groups.

Students use a table on solubility/insolubility of 16 compounds to determine the validity of four statements and justify with evidence from the table.

Using provided data students decide which of three liquids would freeze if placed in a freezer. Students explain what happens to particles when they freeze and how the level changes due to freezing.

Task: Read a table to answer questions about when birds are likely to visit a native garden for food. Assessment focus: interpreting a table.

Students compare drawings of a healthy and unhealthy plant, collect data, and decide which data distinguishes them. This is a mathematics/science resource.

Students interpret a table of children's votes for their favourite All Black to answer questions about chance.

Students interpret information in a frequency table to decide the probability of winning prizes in a competition.

Students are asked four short questions that require them to use a table that contains a count of the kind of books borrowed from a library for a month.