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Enriching data handling
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.
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Room doubling
7 to 11
Investigate the different ways you could split up these rooms so
that you have double the number.
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How many miles to go?
11 to 14
How many more miles must the car travel before the numbers on the milometer and the trip meter contain the same digits in the same order?
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Painted faces
7 to 11
Imagine a 3 by 3 by 3 cube made of 9 small cubes. Each face of the large cube is painted a different colour. How many small cubes will have two painted faces? Where are they?
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Bridge builder
16 to 18
In this short problem we investigate the tensions and compressions
in a framework made from springs and ropes.
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2 rings
5 to 7
The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?
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Birdwatch
7 to 11
Have a look at this data from the RSPB 2011 Birdwatch. What can you say about the data?
problem
Risk and crime
14 to 16
Are you at risk of being a victim of crime? How does your perception of that risk compare with the facts and figures?
problem
Tables without tens
7 to 11
Investigate and explain the patterns that you see from recording
just the units digits of numbers in the times tables.