Comparing and interpreting data

This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.

This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?

This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.

These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?

Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.

Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.

In this problem you will do your own poll to find out whether your friends think two squares on a board are the same colour or not.

Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?

Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.

You may like to read the article on Morse code before attempting this question. Morse's letter analysis was done over 150 years ago, so might there be a better allocation of symbols today?