Statistical investigations resources

This task requires students to interpret and answer questions about a tally chart showing the number of trucks passing a given point.

Students show their understanding of a strip graph by answering questions about the hair colour of a class of students.

Students complete two strip graphs about the flavour of ice cream bought by girls and boys, and answer a question on interpreting the data.

Students complete a bar graph of a paper boy's earnings from data in a table and answer questions interpreting the data, finding the least, most, average and forecasting.

Students construct and label a pie graph of favourite drinks from data in a table. They also interpret results involving proportions.

Students complete an array to show the number of shaded and unshaded shapes. Students identify the most common shape.

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 complete a frequency table on some provided data and carry out calculations related to averages.

Students decide what information is required to calculate an average.

Students calculate an average and a percentage from raw data and comment on these findings.

Students interpret information presented in a composite histogram to answer questions involving percentages and comparisons.

Students interpret information presented on a strip graph and then present the same information in a pie graph.

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

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

This task requires students to identify the information that is required to calculate averages for given purposes.

This task requires students to interpret a stem-and-leaf graph made by a class showing estimates of jelly beans in a jar.

Students answer questions about data in a triple bar graph of medals won by four countries. Calculation is required.

Using a piece of their own writing students calculate the average and range of the sentence lengths.

Students firstly find the mean and median length of pencils. Secondly students find the median, and lower and upper quartile for the number of cars that passed through the school gate.

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

Students study a box-and-whisker graph of Social Studies marks for 4 classes. They answer questions interpreting the data, and comparing, range and best performance.

Students answer questions about a line graph showing scores in a cricket game. An understanding of slope is needed.

Students show their interpretation of a box-and-whisker graph by answering questions about the data.

In this practical task students construct and label a pictograph by cutting, grouping, and gluing images of how the children in Room 1 get to school.

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