Statistical investigations resources

Students construct a bar graph by categorising a range food items.

Students interpret a bar graph which shows the number of cats taken to a veterinarian in one week.

Students use Harry's Happy Chart to answer questions about how Harry felt.

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

For this practical task students display given data in a stem-and-leaf graph to show what days of the month Room 6 children had their birthdays.

Students complete a pictograph for the number of marbles student have from data in a table. The pictograph has a key.

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

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

Students answer questions about a bar graph showing favourite ice-cream flavours. No calculation needed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.