This displays the drawing of a stem and leaf plot step by step.

This displays some data and asks students if a stem and leaf plot or a dot plot would be the best way to collect the data. Students are asked to imagine they are collecting the data and to try plotting it both ways.

The dot plot orders the data immediately it is collected, but the stem and leaf plot needs to be redrawn with the data ordered.

This resource sheet could be printed, used with a smart board or pdf writer, or displayed on a write on surface.

This displays some examples of how fractions and pie graphs and strip graphs are ed.

This displays a chart of the types of graphs that students should be familiar with. It summarises which graphs to consider for each type of data. You could discuss how the question posed also needs to be considered when deciding what type of graph to use.

This displays the Getting started on page 311.

This activity could lead on to your discussing the different types of graphs students could use to display this sort of data such as pictograph, bar chart, dot plot, pie chart or strip graph.

You could ask students what questions they might ask about this data. For example, “Do boys and girls have different favourite activities?”.

This shows two students making an assertion about the colour of bikes. Two different graphs are given for colours of bikes. Students are asked which graph each student should use to test their assertion.

This displays some graphs, all of which have something missing or wrong. Students are asked what is wrong with each graph.

You could get students to make a poster or summary of all of the things a graph needs so that others can read it properly.

You could ask students what questions they might ask about this data. For example, “Do boys and girls have different favourite activities?”

You could repeat this exercise but use it to compare the preferences of two different groups of students, eg. year 5 and year 6 students.

This displays pairs of pie graphs and strip graphs and gives some comparison statements. Students must decide if the statements are true or false.

Note: Statements that involve the word “number” are false because we don’t know how many boys and how many girls were surveyed.