Statistical investigations resources

Students interpret a tally chart of the number of hours of people read in a week

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

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.

Students interpret a line graph showing the water temperature in a school pool over a two week period.

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.