Statistical investigations resources

This task requires students to read and interpret a pictograph which shows the number of planes landing each day at an airport. This pictograph has a key.

This task requires students to interpret and answer questions from a time-series line graph.

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

Students interpret back-to-back stem-and-leaf graphs. Knowledge of the median is required.

Students are asked to study a stem-and-leaf graph on armspan of students and answer questions interpreting the data.

Students explain the terms discrete and continuous data.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph of examination results for Maths and Science, and answer questions on comparison, median, range and proportion.

Students interpret a histogram showing the number of vehicles travelling at different speeds past a speed camera. Students need to calculate a percentage and the median to complete this task.

Students study a bar graph of golf balls found by two children and answer questions interpreting and comparing the data.

Students answer questions and make statements based on information presented in a frequency table.

This task requires students to answer questions about a tally chart of the number of planes taking off from an airport.

Students study a dot plot of the months students' were born and answer questions interpreting the data.

Students write a report on a table of data and make recommendations from their report.

Students interpret a box-and-whisker graph of maximum daily temperatures over time.

This task requires students to answer questions about a stem-and-leaf graph of the lengths of seventeen frogs.

Students study a table of test results percentages for a range of subjects. Students answer questions involving mean, median, mode and range.

Students read a short piece of text and construct a tally chart for the number of letters in each word. With these results they draw and label a pie graph.

Students interpret a back-to-back bar graph comparing and identifying a pattern in the data.

Students construct a tally chart of project marks by grouping the marks, tallying and then totalling each group of marks..

Students are asked to construct and label a line graph of words typed per minute by two students for each day of the week. Data is provided in a frequency table.

Students complete a stem-and-leaf graph for teachers' ages from data in a list.

Students construct and label a strip graph from a table of data about favourite lunchtime foods.

Students complete a dot plot from a table of data about waiting time in a shop.

Students decide on the best sample of students for a given survey and answer a multiple choice question. They also answer a question on sample size for best accuracy.

Students construct a bar graph from the information about what sports Room 8 children would like to play next term.