Handling data

What can you say about the child who will be first on the playground tomorrow morning at breaktime in your school?

You are organising a school trip and you need to write a letter to parents to let them know about the day. Use the cards to gather all the information you need.

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

Can you deduce which Olympic athletics events are represented by the graphs?