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Creating expressions/formulae. Working systematically. Visualising. Interpreting data. Number - generally. Mathematical reasoning & proof. 100 square. Base-10 apparatus. Addition & subtraction. Generalising.There are 23 results
Broad Topics > Handling, Processing and Representing Data > Interpreting data
Calendar Capers
Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
Choose any three by three square of dates on a calendar page...
Not Necessarily in That Order
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Baker, Cooper, Jones and Smith are four people whose occupations are teacher, welder, mechanic and programmer, but not necessarily in that order. What is each person’s occupation?
Charting Success
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Charting More Success
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Tree Tops
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A manager of a forestry company has to decide which trees to plant. What strategy for planting and felling would you recommend to the manager in order to maximise the profit?
Clock Squares
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Square numbers can be represented on the seven-clock (representing these numbers modulo 7). This works like the days of the week.
Farmers Field
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
A farmer has a flat field and two sons who will each inherit half of the field. The farmer wishes to build a stone wall to divide the field in two so each son inherits the same area. Stone walls are. . . .
Estimating Time
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.
Olympic Records
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
Avalanche!
Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
Olympic Triathlon
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Is it the fastest swimmer, the fastest runner or the fastest cyclist who wins the Olympic Triathlon?
Terrariums
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
Investigating Epidemics
Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Reaction Timer
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Box Plot Match
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.
Risk and Crime
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:
Are you at risk of being a victim of crime? How does your perception of that risk compare with the facts and figures?
What's the Weather Like?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?
What Does Random Look Like?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Understanding Hypotheses
Stage: 3, 4 and 5
This article explores the process of making and testing hypotheses.
Who's the Best?
Stage: 3 Challenge Level:
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.