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How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.
With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?
Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?
How can we make sense of national and global statistics involving very large numbers?
Is it the fastest swimmer, the fastest runner or the fastest cyclist who wins the Olympic Triathlon?
Six samples were taken from two distributions but they got muddled up. Can you work out which list is which?
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
How can we find out answers to questions like this if people often lie?
A geographical survey: answer the tiny questionnaire and then analyse all the collected responses...
Displaying one-variable and two-variable data can be straightforward; what about three or more?
Where do people fly to from London? What is good and bad about these representations?
This pilot collection of resources is designed to introduce key statistical ideas and help students to deepen their understanding.
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Substitution and Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?
Here is the start of a six-part challenge. Can you get to the end and crack the final message?
How can people be divided into groups fairly for events in the Paralympics, for school sports days, or for subject sets?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
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?
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
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.
Florence Nightingale may be well known for her role as a nurse, but she was also an excellent mathematician, collecting and analysing data to help improve hospital conditions.
Have you ever wondered how maps are made? Or perhaps who first thought of the idea of designing maps? We're here to answer these questions for you.
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.