Data Handling Lessons Y5
Data Handling Lessons Y5
Task 1
Challenge
HOT
The shape below represents 8 hours.
Four children were asked how much screentime they had in a week.
Skip
Shannon
Mimi
Taylor
Exit Learning
Skip wants to use a pictogram to represent the number of ice cream cones sold each day.
SPICY
The shape below represents 9 hours.
Four children were asked how much screentime they had in a week.
Skip
Shannon
Mimi
Taylor
Exit Learning
Skip wants to use a pictogram to represent the number of ice cream cones sold each day.
SIZZLING
The shape below represents 5 hours.
Four children were asked how much screentime they had in a week.
Skip
Shannon
Mimi
Taylor
Exit Learning
Skip wants to use a pictogram to represent the number of ice cream cones sold each day.
Challenge
Four pupils from Class 4, Ben, Ali, Katie and Charlene, decided to make graphs
of the sizes of the seven classes in the school.
Ben and Ali found out how many children there were in Classes 1, 2 and 3.
Ben and Ali drew a bar chart. It Katie and Charlene drew this
looked like this: pictogram:
Kate and Charlene have forgotten to add a key to their pictogram. What should the key
say?
Task 1
Exit Learning
Bar charts are used when the data is discrete. Explain what is meant by the word ‘discrete’.
Lesson 4
Task 1
Challenge
Look at the medals table from the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Do you think the table is fair? Can
you think of another way of sorting the data? Does this affect the final table?
Exit Learning
Sizzling Task: Here are the final points totals for three teams in the Premier League table over the last 5 years. The
points totals are in bold, and their final league position are in brackets.
Skip and Shannon were debating Liverpool and Man City. Skip thinks Liverpool were more successful in 2021
than Man City were in 2022. Shannon disagrees? Who do you think is correct? Explain your answer.
Calculate the mean, median and range of points for Arsenal over the five years.
Draw a line graph to represent the data. Think how you can show all teams on one graph.
Exit Learning
Explain why a line graph was used to represent the data here.
Spicy Task: Here are the final points totals for two teams in the Premier League table over the last 5 years. The points
totals are in bold, and their final league position are in brackets.
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Manchester City 98 (1) 81 (2) 86 (1) 93 (1) 89 (1)
Arsenal 70 (5) 56 (8) 61 (8) 69 (5) 84 (2)
Skip and Shannon were debating. Skip thinks Arsenal were more successful in 2022 than Manchester City were
in 2019. Shannon disagrees? Who do you think is correct? Explain your answer.
Calculate the mean, median and range of points for Arsenal over the five years.
Draw a line graph to represent how Arsenal have performed over the five years.
Exit Learning
Explain why a line graph was used to represent the data here.
Hot Task: Look at this table showing the number of games won and the final league position at the end of the last five
years for Brighton Football Club.
Skip thinks Brighton improved every year from 2018 to 2020. Shannon says they did not.
Sizzling Challenge
The line graph shows the number of parcels delivered in a week. The point for Sunday, the least
busy day, has not been plotted. If the range of parcels delivered is 12, what is the correct point
for Sunday?
Spicy Challenge
The line graph shows the number of lunches sold at a college each day.
How many lunches were sold on Tuesday?
1 3.
Alun asked his friends which of the four rugby teams they
Year 6 voted for the season they liked
liked best.
best. The pie chart shows the results.
6 people chose Ebbw Vale.
25 children chose winter. How
many people voted overall?
(a) How many people chose Pontypridd?
(b) How many people voted altogether?
10 children chose autumn. How
many chose spring?
Exit Learning:
Challenge