Statistical investigations resources

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 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.

Students complete a bar graph from information in a tally chart about the ages of students and interpret the data by answering questions.

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

Students complete a line graph to show the daily height of a lettuce plant, giving their graph a title and labelling both axes.

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

Students complete a dot plot of animals seen at the zoo using data provided.

Students complete qualitative scales to describe feelings about homework, lunch, and assembly behaviour.

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

This task requires students to answer questions about a time-series graph for two categories of data over an eight year period.

Students to interpret pie graphs by answering questions about percentages and numerical values.

Students compare drawings of a healthy and unhealthy plant and decide which quantitative and/or qualitative data distinguishes them. They draw conclusions from the data. This is a mathematics/science resource.

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

Students use raw data to construct a table and then a bar graph of the number of runs scored in softball games. Students are also required to make a statement about the results.

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.