Data Handling

Lesson 1
Van
Arsenal 30
Persie LOFT: TBAT plan
Manchester
Rooney
United
27 and persue a line of
Aguero Manchester City 23
enquiry.
Adebayor Tottenham 17
Dempsey Fulham 17 Starter:
Yakubu Blackburn 17 Find the mean,
Ba Newcastle 16
median, mode and
Holt Norwich 15
range of this year
Dzeko Manchester City 14
premier league goal
Balotelli Manchester City 13 scorers.
 Today’s Task:
Do we eat enough Vegetables?
In table groups you are going to plan, conduct
and present a Maths investigation. You are
going to conduct a survey to see how much
fruit and vegetables pupils eat daily, then
present it to the class.
In table groups come up with a plan for the
lesson, what do you need doing, and who is
going to do it?
Review:
Were your results as you
expected?
How well did your group
work together?
How could you further the
investigation?
 Lesson 2
City Average TBAT collect and
Temperature –
degrees Celsius organise data
London 15
Starter –
Madrid 26 Find the mean,

Beijing 23 median, mode and

range of these
Athens 32 temperatures.
Paris 19
This table shows where 100 people went on
holiday in 2008 and 2009:
2008 2009
Spain 17 25
England 39 18
Scotland 21 12
Wales 18 29
USA 5 16
How many people went to USA in 2008? ______
How many more people went to USA in 2009? ______
Which country had the most visitors in 2008? ______
Which country had the most visitors in 2009? ______
Which country had the greatest increase in visitors from 2008 to
2009? _____
How many more people went to Scotland than to Wales in 2008?
Which country had the least visitors in 2009? _____
Which country had the least increase in visitors from 2008 to 2009?
Lesson 3
LOFT: TBAT estimate the probability of
an event.

 1. How many sheep can say that there is at least one other sheep
here of the same colour?
 2. The farmer takes one sheep from the field at random. What is the
probability it is
a) Yellow b) Blue c) Green d) Not red ?
Write your answers as a fraction.
 Today’s Task:
Side 1
You are going to toss a coin in
the air a total of 30 times.
Every time the coin lands you
are going to record whether you
get a ‘head’ or a ‘tail’.
Write H for ‘head’ and T for
‘tail’ in a simple table
How many times did you get a
‘head’?
How many times did you get a
‘tail’?
Side 2
You are going to roll a dice a total of 30
times.
Every time you roll you are going to
record the score on the dice.
Write the score you get each time in a
simple table.
Number of 1s: ________
Number of 4s: ________
Number of 2s: ________
Number of 5s: ________
Number of 3s: ________
Number of 6s: ________
Review:
Were your results as you
expected?
What do we mean by
probability?
How could you further the
investigation?
 Lesson 4
LOFT: TBAT conduct an investigation with
measure.

Starter:
If I chose someone at random from the class
today:
 What would be the probability I chose a girl?
 What would be the probability I chose someone
wearing a jumper?
 Today’s Task:
Does practice improve performance?

Your task today is to track whether

practicing and activity can improve your
performance.
You are going to throw a bean bag at a
target from 3m away, and track if you
performance improves over time.
The activity…
You will have 1 go at throwing the bean
bag, and see how far away from the target
you are.
Then spend 30mins practicing in your table
groups, try and come up with some different
techniques to help you.
Then you will complete the throw again.
Did you get any better? How much closer
were you?
Review:
Were your results as you
expected?
How well did your group
work together?
How could you further the
investigation?