Statistics resources

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

Decide if a described investigation is a fair test, and explain the decision. Assessment focus: identifying fair testing.

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

Students identify data as 'discrete' or 'continuous' from a range of examples.

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

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

Students interpret information in a frequency table to decide the probability of winning prizes in a competition.

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

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

Students match bar graphs to tally charts.

Students complete and label a bar graph and a strip graph about eye colour from a table of information.

Students complete a stem and leaf graph about students' test scores and answer questions on mode, spread and range.

Students complete a chart showing the possible combinations of numbers from two dice throws. They then list all combinations that add up to seven and nine.

Students are asked four short questions that require them to use a table that contains a count of the kind of books borrowed from a library for a month.

Students determine the probability of events related to a grid map.

Students interpret information in a frequency table to answer probability.

Students calculate the number of different combinations of ties and socks that could be worn.

Students calculate how many possible combinations there are when given different numbers of menu items.

Students draw a graph from data about peaches picked in an orchard displayed in a frequency chart.

Students complete a picture-graph from a chart of data about the number of sunny days recorded over six months with a scale.

Students complete a tally chart to show the frequency of running times for a women's marathon. Students then present this information in a histogram.

Students use a protractor to construct a pie chart to record the frequency of favourite TV programmes from the data provided in a table.

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

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

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