Statistical investigations resources

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

This task requires students to answer questions about a bar graph showing hours of sunshine over a week.

Each student designs a question and an associated scale to record other students' attitudes to mathematics.

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

Students complete a chart showing the tally and total for different kinds of fruit.

Students interpret a line graph showing the water temperature in a school pool over a two week period.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students complete and label a bar graph and a strip graph about eye colour from a table of information.

Students complete a stem and leaf graph about students' test scores and answer questions on mode, spread and range.

Students draw a graph from data about peaches picked in an orchard displayed in a frequency chart.

Students complete a picture-graph from a chart of data about the number of sunny days recorded over six months with a scale.

Students complete a tally chart to show the frequency of running times for a women's marathon. Students then present this information in a histogram.

Students use a protractor to construct a pie chart to record the frequency of favourite TV programmes from the data provided in a table.

Students interpret a tally chart of the number of hours of people read in a week

Students explain why one set of data is discrete and another is continuous.

Students record the number of different shapes on a tally chart and total each.

Students construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf graph of softball throwing distances from two sets of data.

Using data given in a table, students are required to construct a double line graph on the axes provided.

For this practical task students collect time-series data on the change in water temperature in a container at regular time intervals. Students are also required to display their results on an appropriate graph.

Students estimate and tally the number of each activity their partner completes in 30 seconds. They then identify the best estimate.

Students design a qualitative scale for measuring how hard their school work is, then use it to record their opinions throughout the day.

Students answer questions and calculate a percentage related to a bar graph of the ways students travel to school.

Students to interpret a bar graph and answer questions about its data.

Students interpret information presented in a data table and answer questions, and calculate an average.

Students answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph which shows the ages of people gathered in a house one Christmas.