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In this short problem, can you deduce the likely location of the odd ones out in six sets of random numbers?
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Do you know which birds are regular visitors where you live?
Is it the fastest swimmer, the fastest runner or the fastest cyclist who wins the Olympic Triathlon?
How does the time of dawn and dusk vary? What about the Moon, how does that change from night to night? Is the Sun always the same? Gather data to help you explore these questions.
How can people be divided into groups fairly for events in the Paralympics, for school sports days, or for subject sets?
This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.
Can you see who the gold medal winner is? What about the silver medal winner and the bronze medal winner?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Making a scale model of the solar system
Six samples were taken from two distributions but they got muddled up. Can you work out which list is which?
This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?
When Charlie retires, he's looking forward to the quiet life, whereas Alison wants a busy and exciting retirement. Can you advise them on where they should go?
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Can you use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many boys and girls are there in your group?'.
Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?
Design and test a paper helicopter. What is the best design?
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.
What biological growth processes can you fit to these graphs?
In the ancient city of Atlantis a solid rectangular object called a Zin was built in honour of the goddess Tina. Your task is to determine on which day of the week the obelisk was completed.
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
This article for teachers looks at some suggestions taken from the NRICH website that offer a broad view of data and ask some more probing questions about it.
This article for teachers describes an activity which encourages meaningful data collection, display and interpretation.
Can you coach your rowing eight to win?
Written for teachers, this article discusses mathematical representations and takes, in the second part of the article, examples of reception children's own representations.
Use the information about the ducks on a particular farm to find out which of the statements about them must be true.
A maths-based Football World Cup simulation for teachers and students to use.
Three dice are placed in a row. Find a way to turn each one so that the three numbers on top of the dice total the same as the three numbers on the front of the dice. Can you find all the ways to. . . .
In a league of 5 football teams which play in a round robin tournament show that it is possible for all five teams to be league leaders.
Ideas for practical ways of representing data such as Venn and Carroll diagrams.
