Handling data

There are 54 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Handling data

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Substitution cipher

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

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

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Very old man

Age

16 to 18

Challenge level

Is the age of this very old man statistically believable?

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In the bag

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Can you guess the colours of the 10 marbles in the bag? Can you develop an effective strategy for reaching 1000 points in the least number of rounds?

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Reaction timer

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

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

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M, m and m

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

If you are given the mean, median and mode of five positive whole numbers, can you find the numbers?

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Searching for mean(ing)

Age

11 to 16

Challenge level

If you have a large supply of 3kg and 8kg weights, how many of each would you need for the average (mean) of the weights to be 6kg?

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For richer for poorer

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Charlie has moved between countries and the average income of both has increased. How can this be so?

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How would you score it?

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Invent a scoring system for a 'guess the weight' competition.

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The hair colour game

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

The class were playing a maths game using interlocking cubes. Can you help them record what happened?

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A population survey

Age

14 to 18

Challenge level

A geographical survey: answer the tiny questionnaire and then analyse all the collected responses...

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Handling data

Substitution cipher

Very old man

In the bag

Reaction timer

M, m and m

Searching for mean(ing)

For richer for poorer

How would you score it?

The hair colour game

A population survey