Handling data

  • Unequal Averages
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    Unequal averages

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Play around with sets of five numbers and see what you can discover about different types of average...

  • Box plot match
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    Box plot match

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.

  • Half a minute
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    Half a minute

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Anna, Ben and Charlie have been estimating 30 seconds. Who is the best?

  • Wipeout
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    Wipeout

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you do a little mathematical detective work to figure out which number has been wiped out?

  • About Average
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    About average

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find sets of numbers which satisfy each of our mean, median, mode and range conditions?

  • Estimating time
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    Estimating time

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.

  • Perception versus reality
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    Perception versus reality

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?

  • What's the weather like?
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    What's the weather like?

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?

  • Picturing the world
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    Picturing the world

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How can we make sense of national and global statistics involving very large numbers?

  • History of Morse
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    History of Morse

    This short article gives an outline of the origins of Morse code and its inventor and how the frequency of letters is reflected in the code they were given.