Statistics

Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?

Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.

Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?

Can you find sets of numbers which satisfy each of our mean, median, mode and range conditions?

Anna, Ben and Charlie have been estimating 30 seconds. Who is the best?

Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?

With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?