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Broad Topics > Handling, Processing and Representing Data > Tabular data

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Real Statistics

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?

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What Shape and Colour?

Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?

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Birdwatch

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Have a look at this data from the RSPB 2011 Birdwatch. What can you say about the data?

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Presenting the Project

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Have a look at all the information Class 5 have collected about themselves. Can you find out whose birthday it is today?

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Oware, Naturally

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Could games evolve by natural selection? Take part in this web experiment to find out!

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Card Game (a Simple Version of Clock Patience)

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Four cards are shuffled and placed into two piles of two. Starting with the first pile of cards - turn a card over... You win if all your cards end up in the trays before you run out of cards in. . . .

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Football Champs

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Three teams have each played two matches. The table gives the total number points and goals scored for and against each team. Fill in the table and find the scores in the three matches.

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Christmas Trees

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Christmas trees are planted in a rectangular array of 10 rows and 12 columns. The farmer chooses the shortest tree in each of the columns... the tallest tree from each of the rows ... Which is. . . .

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Friday 13th

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

This month there is a Friday the thirteenth and this year there are three. Can you explain why every year must contain at least one Friday the thirteenth?

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Penta Colour

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

In how many different ways can I colour the five edges of a pentagon red, blue and green so that no two adjacent edges are the same colour?

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Hockey

Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

After some matches were played, most of the information in the table containing the results of the games was accidentally deleted. What was the score in each match played?


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