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MATHS PROGRAMME21. INTERPRETING DATA
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DATA HANDLING
1. How many different ways can you think of that we might use to write down information?
answer __________________
2. Bar chart to show the amount of strawberries eaten in one week:
a) Can you label the chart above with a title for each axis?
b) What is this chart showing us?
answer __________________
c) How man strawberries were eaten on Monday?
answer __________________
d) How many strawberries were eaten on Wednesday?
answer __________________
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e) How many more strawberries were eaten on Saturday than on Tuesday?
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f) How many strawberries were eaten across the whole six days?
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g) How many strawberries were eaten on Friday and Saturday?
answer __________________
h) If 35 strawberries were eaten across the whole week including on Sunday how many strawberries were eaten on Sunday?
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i). Can you draw a bar on the chart to represent how many strawberries were eaten on Sunday?
j) This bar chart was created during a week in the summer. Could you suggest how this bar chart might look different during a week in the winter? There would be no bars as no strawberries grow in winter.
answer _________________________________________________
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3.
a) The amount of rain that fell in June was 20 cm. Can you use this information to help you write down the numbers down the side of the graph?
b) Can you label both axis of the graph?
c) How much rain fell in March?
answer __________________
d) How much rain fell in February?
answer __________________
e) How much rain fell in May?
answer __________________
f) How much more rain fell in March than in June?
answer __________________
January February March April May June July
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g) How much more rain fell in April that in May?
answer __________________
h) In which month did the least rain fall?
answer __________________
i) In which month did the most rain fall?
answer __________________
j) How much rain fell altogether from January to May?
answer __________________
k) 7cm of rain fell in July. Can you now mark this on the graph?
l) Why do you think that the graph measures no rain in January?
answer __________________
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4.
Month J F M A M J J A S O N D
KansasAverageTemperatures °C
8 9 3 5 11 19 23 21 10 4 2 6
OzAverageTemperatures °C
2 5 3 2 0.5 1 5.5 1 0 2 3 4
The Yellow Brick RoadAverageTemperatures °C
2 2 1 1 4 7 9 8 6 3 0 2
EnglandAverageTemperatures °C
4 5 8 10 11 15 18 17 14 12 7 5
a) What was the temperature in Kansas in May?
answer __________________
b) What was the temperature in England in August?
answer __________________
c) Which countries are the warmest?
answer __________________
d) Which country is the coldest?
answer __________________
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e) What is the warmest month in all four countries?
answer __________________
f) What are the coldest months in all four countries?
answer ____________________________________________________
g) What is the difference in temperature between September in Kansas and September in England?
answer __________________
h) What is the difference in temperature between January and November on the Yellow Brick Road?
answer __________________
i) Which month is the warmest out of all four countries?
answer _______________________________
j) Which month is the coldest out of all four countries?
answer _______________________________________________
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k) What is the difference in temperature between July in Kansas and May in Oz?
answer __________________
l) The temperature right now is three times hotter than the temperature in Kansas in October. What is the temperature now?
answer __________________
Bonus Question: Can you now make up three of your own questions for you tutor to solve?
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MINI ASSESSMENT
Name of Child Number of sweets
Ryan 6
Tom 9
Sarah 11
Georgie 10
1. How many sweets goes Georgie have?
answer __________________ (1 mark)
2. How many more sweets does Sarah have than Ryan?
answer __________________ (1 mark)
3. How many sweet do Tom and Georgie have altogether?
answer __________________ (1 mark)
4. How many sweets do all four children have?
answer __________________ (1 mark)
5. If all four children shared their sweets equally amongst themselves how many would each child get?
answer __________________ (2 marks)
6. Can you draw a simple bar chart to show these results? (4 marks)
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PRACTICE EXERCISE
Can you now gather some data of your own and think about how you are going to write this down? Could you use a table or a bar chart to show your information?
Suggestions: What is the temperature each day this week? How long is the length of each person’s foot in your family?
