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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?
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?
This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.
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?
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?
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?
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.
You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.
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.
Use the two sets of data to find out how many children there are in Classes 5, 6 and 7.
What information do you need to know to set up a healthy snack shop for your class?
In this article for Primary teachers, we suggest a four step data handling model, based on the work of Alan Graham.
Statistics problems at primary level that may require resilience.
Statistics problems at primary level that require careful consideration.
Statistics problems for primary learners to work on with others.
Statistics problems for inquiring primary learners.
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?
If Tom wants to learn to cook his favourite supper, he needs to make a schedule so that everything is ready at the same time.
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
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.
This article for teachers looks at some suggestions taken from the NRICH website that offer a broad view of data and ask some more probing questions about it.
This article for teachers describes an activity which encourages meaningful data collection, display and interpretation.
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.
Four children were sharing a set of twenty-four butterfly cards. Are there any cards they all want? Are there any that none of them want?
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.
Written for teachers, this article discusses mathematical representations and takes, in the second part of the article, examples of reception children's own representations.
Charlie thinks that a six comes up less often than the other numbers on the dice. Have a look at the results of the test his class did to see if he was right.
Use the information about the ducks on a particular farm to find out which of the statements about them must be true.
Does a graph of the triangular numbers cross a graph of the six times table? If so, where? Will a graph of the square numbers cross the times table too?
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.
Ideas for practical ways of representing data such as Venn and Carroll diagrams.