From the series Great Lesson Ideas, this Teachers TV video shows a variety of activities being used to teach data handling in Key Stage Two. A Year Three class at Cuffley School, Hertfordshire, uses data about their favourite school meals to create a human bar graph. At Wroxham School in Hertfordshire Year Four...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to develop, practise and consolidate students' understanding of handling data...

This task is a real-world example of how spreadsheets can be utilised effectively to simplify data handling and calculation tasks.

Pupils are provided with information about the number of items being transported in a lorry and their individual value. Pupils have to create a spreadsheet to calculate the total...

Published by BEAM this is a data handling activity for early years students.

The task requires students to compare sets of toys presented in party bags. The students are to identify which toys are missing from which bags.

This activity is ideal for exploring strategies for success on such a task and...

Published by BEAM, this is a data handling activity which focuses on properties of shape. Students have to identify and draw toys that are round. Studeents are then required to sort them from those that are not round.

*Sorting toys - a task requiring students to sort using one criterion. This could be used...

Published by BEAM, this activity for two students uses Venn diagrams to develop an understanding of the intersection of two sets.

About us - an activity for two students. Each student labels one circle of a Venn diagram with their name. Students then take turns to pick a characteristic of themselves. The...

Jingle Bells, a Christmas themed activity, published by BEAM. In this activity, students have to identify a range of musical notes. Students are required to construct a tally chart. From the results of the tally chart a bar chart can be drawn. Students then have to interpret their results by deciding which student...

Published by BEAM, these two games encourage students to develop their skills of sorting shapes using one criterion and numbers using one or two criteria.

*Sorting - a game for two players requiring one student to choose which shapes go inside the circle and to make up a label for the circle. The second...

Published by BEAM, these two data handling games are from the Maths of the Month series. Three digits - a game for two players. Each player takes turns to place a counter on a number. The winner is the first player to have three counters on numbers which contain the same digit. Venn Diagram Game - a game for two...

This game, published by BEAM, poses a number of questions aimed at developing students' understanding of simple probability using a set of number cards. Probably - a game for two players. The chooser chooses a card from the set of cards. The guesser has to guess whether the card id shows an odd or an even number....

In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Two teacher overcome her own fear of ICT while improving her teaching of data handling at Key Stage One by using the advice of a fellow teacher. Data handling is often conducted using traditional pen and paper methods in the classroom, but ICT offers an effective and simple way...

Histogram reconstruction is an activity designed to enable students to gain a deeper understanding of frequency density and how it is used in the construction of a histogram.

Students cut out bars from a rectangle with which students construct three histograms using the clues given in three partially...

The first video explains why computers use binary to store data.  The difference between a bit, nibble, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte and petabyte is explained.  These are known as measurements of capacity, or how much data can be stored either in memory or on secondary storage devices.

The...

Using a spreadsheet as a grid of 'pixels', this computing activity teachers how 1's and 0's can store image data. The classroom exercises use images with increasing pixel resolution, looking at how this affects the clarity of the image. Moving from black-and-white images, the students then use grids of colour...

The first sheet of this excel file shows the number of passengers per flight from London to Paris. The raw data is shown in a grouped frequency table and the midpoint of each group can be revealed as well as each stage in the calculation of the estimate of the mean. The next two sheets each show two sets of data...