Statistical investigations resources

Students interpret bi-variate data on a bar graph to answer questions about social media and age of users.

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

Students study a table of test results percentages for a range of subjects. Students answer questions involving mean, median, mode and range. They also draw a stem-and-leaf graph.

Students are required to construct a composite bar graph based on Statistics New Zealand Time Use Survey data and are then required to make comparative statements based on gender.

Students complete three pie charts involving spending, using data in the form of proportions and amounts spent on certain activities.

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

Students read information and make statements about the information from two bar graphs.

Students construct and give a title for a bar graph of favourite food from data in a tally chart.

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on a question, categories, conduct the survey, tally and graph the results on a bar graph.

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students complete and total a tally chart of food left from Tiare's party.

Students state what things will affect how far a cube will travel when flicked in the middle with a ball-point pen, and conduct an experiment to see what happens in practice.

Students conduct a statistical investigation into the sentence length of different types of books by making and comparing dot plots.

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

Students complete a frequency table about South Island populations and construct a composite bar graph with a key.

Students construct a dot plot of fish seen at an aquarium from a tally chart, and answer questions interpreting the results.

Students draw a scatterplot of a table of data and describe the relationship between the two variables.

In this practical task, students interpret information presented in a strip graph, regroup the data, construct a new strip graph, and answer questions about the data.

Students conduct a statistical investigation about their prediction of the most common words used in English. They make graphs, describe their shape, and compare their own graph with ones that other students produce.

Students choose the best type of graph for a selection of sets of data.

Students interpret a bar graph showing the number of different types of shell collected on a beach.

Students plan how to do a statistical investigation about a question that has been posed, and think about how they will collect their data.

Students answer questions about a bar graph which shows the number of different types of animals at the zoo.

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.

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