Interpreting statistical and chance situations resources

Students record all the different combinations of lunches that could be chosen from five possibilities.

Students show probabilities by shading a spinner.

Students decide whether a graph is suitable to display category data and explain their answer.

Students are asked to study a bar graph of ways to travel to school and write down five things that are wrong with the way the graph is set up.

Students predict the outcome of 100 coin tosses, then carry out a test of their prediction, recording their results.

Students recognise equal and different likelihoods when playing a game of chance and explain their reasoning.

Using a diagram of a spinner, students choose the chances of the arrow landing on particular numbers.

Students determine the probability of a hot air balloon landing in various locations marked on a grid map.

Students interpret a scatterplot and identify statements about both details and overall information.

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

Students identify a correct statement about the comparing the overall distribution of two dot plots.

Students read statements about a stem-and-leaf graph and indicate whether the statements are true or false.

Students show their understanding of stem-and-leaf graphs of ages by classifying questions as true or false.

Students interpret a table of children's votes for their favourite All Black to answer questions about chance.

Students list all possible combinations from six different articles of clothing.

Students interpret a pie graph by answering questions on how city rates were spent over one year.

Students construct a spinner and use it to investigate predictions of the probability of outcomes. Findings are recorded in a student designed table.

Students use pictures to help them list the 24 different combinations of four children sitting in a row of desks.

Students identify outcomes from a dice throw, and find the lowest and highest scores.

Students predict the likelihood of picking coloured counters out of a box.

Students select answers to show which child has the best chance of selecting their favourite coloured marble from a bag.

Students record all the different combinations of sandwiches from two types of bread and three fillings.

In this practical task, students use pictures of meat and salad fillings to work out all possible combinations of sandwiches. An optional activity is to make actual sandwiches.

Students select answers to show whether the chance of certain events happening is even or not even.

Students decide which arrow on three spinners is most likely to point to white, and explain their reasons.