Tables

This table shows the top half of the English Premier League.
Which team is winning? Which team scored the most goals?
(GF) Which team has played the least games? (MP)
 Date:
LI: To learn how to use tables to record data from
experiments.

Success Criteria
1. Knowledge: Able to read information from a table.
2. Understanding: Able to plot and draw your own
table.
3. Applying: Can create a table to record your own
experimental results.
 Tables
Tables are an excellent way of recording the data from an experiment, a
football league, a business or many other things in everyday life.
 Table Headings
Every table needs to have headings. These give the reader information about
what the table is about.
For example, if we wanted to see how often it rained in a city for each month,
we could take two headings: Month, and Number of Rainy Days.

Month Number of Rainy Days

January 2
February 1
March 6
April 10
May 15
 Variables
Generally we put the independent variable (the one that we change) on
the left column, and the dependent variable (the one we measure) on
the right column. Tables can have more than two columns though, but
most of the ones we will use in school will just have two.
If you picked the number, put it in the left column. If the experiment
picked the number, put it in the right column.

Height of Ball Dropped (m) Time Taken To Fall (s)

1 0.1
2 0.18
3 0.25
 Units
If our variables have units, such as metres, seconds, kilograms etc., we put
these in the headings inside brackets. This means we only need to write it out
once. Each value should have the same unit, so for example, if some values are
in kg and others in g, pick one and convert the others.
Time Taken Heating Temperature of Water Time Taken Heating Temperature of Water
Water (min) (˚C) Water
0 25 0 min 25 ˚C
1 30 1 min 30 ˚C
2 35 2 min 35 ˚C
3 40 3 min 40 ˚C
4 44 4 min 44 ˚C
5 50 5 min 50 ˚C
6 57 6 min 57 ˚C
 Order
When writing a table, we should arrange the data into a logical order,
either ascending (getting bigger) or descending (getting smaller). The
results should never be placed in a random order, as this makes things
more difficult to read and recognize patterns.

Time spent watching street (hours) Number of red cars seen

1 12
3 41
2 30
5 64
4 50
 Practice Question
A pupil did an experiment over the course of a week,
measuring the height of a plant by how many days it spent in
the sun. Her results are below. Use these results to create a
table to record her experiment data.

0 days (20 cm), 4 days (80 cm), 1 day (30 cm), 2 days (50
cm), 3 days (68 cm), 7 days (1.25 m), 6 days (1.13 m), 5 days
(95 cm)
 Answer
Time (days) Height (cm)
0 20
1 30
2 50
3 68
4 80
5 95
6 113
7 125
 Practice
Some famous diamonds have been found in different countries. Each
diamond has a different weight measured in carats. The Kohinoor
diamond, from India, has a weight of 105.60 carats. The
Millenium Star diamond has a weight of 203.04 carats and was
found in Congo. The Centenary diamond weighs 273.85 carats and
the Cullinan diamond, the largest ever found, weighs 530.20
carats. Both the Centenary and Cullinan diamonds were found in
South Africa.

Present this information in a table with three suitable

headings.
 Answer

Diamond Name Country of Origin Weight (carats)

Kohinoor India 105.6

Millenium Star Congo 203.04

Centenary South Africa 273.85

Cullinan South Africa 530.2

 Measuring Height
Your task is to use the metre sticks and/or tape measurers to measure
the height of everyone in the class, and sort this data into a table.
Remember everything that you’ve learned about headings, variables,
units and order.