There are 67 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Comparing and interpreting data, you may find related items under Handling, processing and representing data.
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Match the cumulative frequency curves with their corresponding box plots.
Anna, Ben and Charlie have been estimating 30 seconds. Who is the best?
How well can you estimate 10 seconds? Investigate with our timing tool.
With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?
Is it the fastest swimmer, the fastest runner or the fastest cyclist who wins the Olympic Triathlon?
Here's a very elementary code that requires young children to read a table, and look for similarities and differences.
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?
This problem explores the range of events in a sports day and which ones are the most popular and attract the most entries.
Six samples were taken from two distributions but they got muddled up. Can you work out which list is which?
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?
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?
Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?
Can you put these mixed-up times in order? You could arrange them in a circle.
Which countries have the most naturally athletic populations?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
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?
What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?
This problem offers you two ways to test reactions - use them to investigate your ideas about speeds of reaction.
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
Have a look at this table of how children travel to school. How does it compare with children in your class?
Decide which charts and graphs represent the number of goals two football teams scored in fifteen matches.
Can you make sense of information about trees in order to maximise the profits of a forestry company?
Statistics problems for inquiring primary learners.
Guess the Houses game for an adult and child. Can you work out which house your partner has chosen by asking good questions?
Build a mini eco-system, and collect and interpret data on how well the plants grow under different conditions.
How do decisions about scoring affect who wins a combined event such as the decathlon?
Simple models which help us to investigate how epidemics grow and die out.
Letters have different values in Scrabble - how are they decided upon? And would the values be the same for other languages?
Substitution and Transposition all in one! How fiendish can these codes get?
Here is the start of a six-part challenge. Can you get to the end and crack the final message?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
Can you make sense of the charts and diagrams that are created and used by sports competitors, trainers and statisticians?
When Charlie retires, he's looking forward to the quiet life, whereas Alison wants a busy and exciting retirement. Can you advise them on where they should go?
Investigate how avalanches occur and how they can be controlled
This task depends on learners sharing reasoning, listening to opinions, reflecting and pulling ideas together.
This article explores the process of making and testing hypotheses.
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
This article for teachers looks at some suggestions taken from the NRICH website that offer a broad view of data and ask some more probing questions about it.
In this problem you will do your own poll to find out whether your friends think two squares on a board are the same colour or not.
This article for teachers describes an activity which encourages meaningful data collection, display and interpretation.
You may like to read the article on Morse code before attempting this question. Morse's letter analysis was done over 150 years ago, so might there be a better allocation of symbols today?
Like all sports rankings, the cricket ratings involve some maths. In this case, they use a mathematical technique known as exponential weighting. For those who want to know more, read on.
Baker, Cooper, Jones and Smith are four people whose occupations are teacher, welder, mechanic and programmer, but not necessarily in that order. What is each person’s occupation?
Nine cross country runners compete in a team competition in which there are three matches. If you were a judge how would you decide who would win?
Choose any three by three square of dates on a calendar page...