Data and graphs
Collecting data, making and reading graphs, averages and chance.
Lessons
Data Detectives
How fast are our reflexes? Which graph is telling the truth? Do taller people really have bigger hands? Three lessons where students collect their own measurements and find out what numbers can and can't tell you.
Is It Fair? Chance and Probability
Is a six harder to roll? Which bag gives the best chance of a red? Why does horse 7 always win? Can you design a fair game? Four lessons with dice, coins, counters and spinners where students test their hunches and find out what chance really does.
Printable worksheets
Online practice
- Compare lengths Grade 1
- Length in units from zero Grade 1
- Answer questions about a data table Grade 1
- Mentally add 10 or subtract 10 Grade 2
- Mentally add 100 or subtract 100 Grade 2
- Mentally add 10s to two-digit numbers Grade 2
- Mentally subtract 10s from two-digit numbers Grade 2
- Length from a ruler that does not start at zero Grade 2
- How much longer Grade 2
- Add lengths Grade 2
- Jump on a number line Grade 2
- Answer questions about a data table Grade 2
- Reading a data table Grade 3
- Reading a bar graph from the numbers Grade 3
- Mean, median, mode and range: five numbers Grade 5
- Mean, median, mode and range: six numbers Grade 5
- Mean, median, mode and range: seven numbers Grade 5
- Mean, median, mode and range: eight numbers Grade 5
- Find the mean of a data set Grade 6
- Find the mean when the answer is a decimal Grade 6
- Find the median of a data set Grade 6
- Find the mode of a data set Grade 6
- Find the range of a data set Grade 6
- Find the mean absolute deviation Grade 6
Reading passages
- Favorite Fruit in Room 12 Grade 2 · Table
- Birds Counted At the Feeder Grade 2 · Table
- Books Read By the Reading Club Grade 3 · Table
- Tickets Sold For the School Play Grade 3 · Table
- How Students Get to School Grade 4 · Table
- Thomas Edison: a Life in Science Grade 5 · Biography
- Timeline: Thomas Edison Grade 5 · Timeline
- Favorite Fruit in Room 12 Grade 5 · Table
- How Students Get to School Grade 5 · Table
- Tickets Sold For the School Play Grade 5 · Table
- Built For Survival: the Polar Bear Grade 6 · Information
- Built For Survival: the Red-Eyed Tree Frog Grade 6 · Information
Free tools
Class Graph Maker
Type in your class's results and get a clean bar or line graph to project or print. Built for the data step of every Fieldbook investigation.
Participation Tally
Tap a name each time a student contributes and see who hasn't had a turn yet. Everything stays on your own device.
Probability Lab
Flip coins, roll dice or spin a spinner hundreds of times and compare what happened with what probability predicts.
Mean, Median and Mode
Type in a set of numbers and see the mean, median, mode and range worked out step by step, with a dot plot that shows where each one sits.