
Visualising and representing
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problemCan you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
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Which list is which?
Six samples were taken from two distributions but they got muddled up. Can you work out which list is which?
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If the world were a village
This activity is based on data in the book 'If the World Were a Village'. How will you represent your chosen data for maximum effect?
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Summing consecutive numbers
15 = 7 + 8 and 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers?
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Olympic records
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
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Attractive tablecloths
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
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Speed-time problems at the Olympics
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to race against Usain Bolt?
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Non-transitive dice
Alison and Charlie are playing a game. Charlie wants to go first so Alison lets him. Was that such a good idea?