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Statistics in Real Life

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Statistics in Real Life

Statistics in Real Life

Children collecting data with charts and graphs

📊 Part 1: Finding Statistics Around Us

1. Circle where you might see statistics being used:

Weather report on TV

Sports scores

Class voting for favourite fruit

Counting cars in the car park

2. What question could this data help answer? Match each example:
1. Counting sunny days
2. Recording football goals
3. Tallying favourite colours
A. Which colour is most popular?
B. Who scored the most goals?
C. How many sunny days this week?

🌤️ Part 2: Weather Statistics

3. Look at this week's weather data. Circle the correct answer:

Monday: Sunny | Tuesday: Rainy | Wednesday: Sunny | Thursday: Cloudy | Friday: Sunny

Which weather happened the most?

Sunny

Rainy

Cloudy

4. Complete this sentence about the weather data:

I notice that it was _____________ for _____ days this week. This was _____________ than rainy days.

⚽ Part 3: Sports Statistics

5. Here are the goals scored by different players:

Sam: 4 goals | Emma: 6 goals | Jake: 2 goals | Lily: 5 goals

Who scored the most goals?
6. Draw tally marks to show each player's goals:
7. Put the players in order from most goals to least goals:

1st: _____________ 2nd: _____________ 3rd: _____________ 4th: _____________

🍎 Part 4: School Statistics

8. Our class voted for their favourite fruit. Here are the results:

Apples: 8 votes | Bananas: 5 votes | Oranges: 3 votes | Grapes: 6 votes

Which fruit was the most popular?

Apples

Bananas

Oranges

Grapes

9. How many more people chose apples than oranges?
10. Complete this "I notice" statement:

🤔 Part 5: Thinking About Statistics

11. Why do you think people collect data and use statistics? Check all good reasons:

To find out what is most popular

To help make decisions

To understand what happens around us

To compare different things

12. Draw a picture showing how you could collect data at school:
13. What is one question you would like to find the answer to using statistics?

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