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These resources investigate statistics concepts usually met by students aged 14-16

Statistical shorts
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Statistical shorts

Age
11 to 16
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Can you decide whether these short statistical statements are always, sometimes or never true?

A population survey
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A population survey

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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A geographical survey: answer the tiny questionnaire and then analyse all the collected responses...

Which spinners?
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Which spinners?

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?

Thousands of people
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Thousands of people

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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How many thousand people does each dot represent?
Counting Fish
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Counting fish

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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I need a figure for the fish population in a lake. How does it help to catch and mark 40 fish?

Data matching
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Data matching

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.

Where are you flying?
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Where are you flying?

Age
14 to 18
Challenge level
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Where do people fly to from London? What is good and bad about these representations?

Sleep: the silent killer
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Sleep: the silent killer

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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"Too much sleep is deadly" proclaimed the newspaper headline. Is this true?