Statistical investigations resources

Students interpret a dot plot showing the number of books read by a class of students.

This practical task requires students to record data, which is read out to them, on a stem-and-leaf graph. The leaves are then ordered into a second graph and the graph interpreted.

Students complete a pictograph showing the results of a survey about favourite rugby teams.

Students decide how to group a selection of data about rubbish on the school field and construct a tally chart and frequency table.

Students compare the overall distribution of two dot plots and describe their reasons.

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

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

Students need to answer questions about a pictogram which shows how much money was spent on different fireworks at a store.

Students present data on the number of chocolate bars sold in a stem-and-leaf graph. The data is then ordered into a second graph.

This task requires students to interpret a pie graph about sports watched on TV and answer multiple choice questions.

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

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

Students show their understanding of a dot plot by responding to questions about the birth months of a class.

Students interpret a strip graph and relationships within the graph.

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

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

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

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.

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

Students conduct a practical, statistical investigation. They decide on the question to investigate, conduct the survey, complete the tally chart, and construct and label a bar graph.