Visualising and representing

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?

How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?

Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?

The triathlon is a physically gruelling challenge. Can you work out which athlete burnt the most calories?

Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?

Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions?

Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?

Can you find a way of counting the spheres in these arrangements?

Can you find a way of representing these arrangements of balls?

Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?