Comparing and interpreting data

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?

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

What statements can you make about the car that passes the school gates at 11am on Monday? How will you come up with statements and test your ideas?

Take a look at these data collected by children in 1986 as part of the Domesday Project. What do they tell you? What do you think about the way they are presented?

Have a look at this data from the RSPB 2011 Birdwatch. What can you say about the data?

Class 5 were looking at the first letter of each of their names. They created different charts to show this information. Can you work out which member of the class was away on that day?

This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.

Looking at the Olympic Medal table, can you see how the data is organised? Could the results be presented differently to give another nation the top place?

Can you put these mixed-up times in order? You could arrange them in a circle.

Have a look at the results for some events at past Olympic Games. Can you use these to predict the results at the next Olympics?