NRICH Primary Curriculum Map

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Key

Games are indicated by ‘G’ and Articles by 'A'.

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EYFS Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Post-Primary

Interpreting, Constructing and Presenting Data

Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables
Sticky Data Sticky Data
You'll need to work in a group on this problem. Use your sticky notes to show the answer to questions such as 'how many girls are there in your group?'.
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What Shape and Colour? What Shape and Colour?
Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
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Ladybird Count Ladybird Count
Some children were playing a game. Make a graph or picture to show how many ladybirds each child had.
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Carroll Diagrams Carroll Diagrams
Use the interactivities to fill in these Carroll diagrams. How do you know where to place the numbers?
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Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables
Now and Then Now and Then
Have a look at the results for some events at past Olympic Games. Can you use these to predict the results at the next Olympics?
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If the World Were a Village If the World Were a Village
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?
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Going for Gold Going for Gold
Looking at the 2012 Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?
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The Domesday Project The Domesday Project
Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?
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The car that passes The car that passes
What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?
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Our Sports Our Sports
This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.
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Class 5's names Class 5's names
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?
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Real Statistics Real Statistics
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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Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs
Venn diagrams Venn diagrams
How will you complete these interactive Venn diagrams?
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Take your Dog for a Walk Take your Dog for a Walk
Use the interactivity to move Pat. Can you reproduce the graphs and tell their story?
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Complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables
Interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems

Statistics

Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity
Sort the Street Sort the Street
Sort the houses in my street into different groups. Can you do it in any other ways?
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Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data

Solving Problems

Solve one-step and two-step questions [e.g. 'How many more?' and 'How many fewer?'] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables
Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs
How Big Are Classes 5, 6 and 7? How Big Are Classes 5, 6 and 7?
Use the two sets of data to find out how many children there are in Classes 5, 6 and 7.
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Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph
Calculate and interpret the mean as an average
Birdwatch Birdwatch
Have a look at this data from the RSPB 2011 Birdwatch. What can you say about the data?
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