1. Road Safety Unit C – Handling Data
Answer a set of related questions by collecting, selecting and organising relevant data (Year 5)
Draw conclusions using ICT to present features and identify further questions to ask (Year 5)
Construct frequency tables, pictograms and bar and line graphs to represent the frequencies of events and changes over time (Year 5)
Solve problems by collecting, selecting, processing, presenting and interpreting data, using ICT where appropriate, draw conclusions and identify further questions to ask (Year 6)
Construct and interpret frequency tables, bar charts with grouped discrete data and line graphs; interpret pie charts (Year 6)
Find and interpret mode of a set of data (Year 5)
Describe and interpret results and solutions to problems using the mode, mean, median and range (Year 6)

2. 120
100 80 60
frequency 40 20
bus
van
car
lorry
bicycle
motorbike
types of vehicles

3. motorbike
lorry
car
types of vehicle
bicycle
van
bus 20 40 60 80
100
frequency

5. Pictogram to show numbers of bicycles sold in one week
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
Days of the Week
= 10 cycles

6. Pictogram - Frequency Table
Cycle helmet
Number sold
Trailblazer 24
Valhalla 37
Firefox 25
Valkyrie 16
Vixen 44
Rally 35
Roadrunner 41
Sonic III 29

7. Colours of cars passing school on Monday
Spring/Summer 2006
Autumn/Winter 2006
Number of cars counted
400
Number of cars counted
200

8. Number of people passing their driving test by gender

9. Pie Chart Questions
What percentage of women passed their driving test in ?
What percentage of men passed their driving tests between 1985 – 1986??
How many more men than women passed their driving tests in 2002?
Estimate how many men passed their driving tests in the period shown altogether.
What might the data look like for 2006? Explain why you think this.

10. Travelling to school
summer?
Travelling to school
winter? OR

11. Graphical Stories
The water in the kettle takes 2 minutes to reach boiling point. It boils for another minute before it’s taken off the heat and the water cools down.
Lewis walks to the start of the race and then sprints for the next 100 metres after which he sits down and recovers.
David climbs up to the top of the slide. He jumps onto the slide, slides down and then jumps up and off at the end.

12. Line graph to show a cyclist’s journey60
Distance (m) 40 20 10 20 30 40
Time (mins)

13. Line graph to show how far a toy car travelled down a ramp at different angles80 60
Angle of ramp (°) 40 20 5 10 15 20
Distance travelled (cm)

14. Line Graph Questions
At what angle was the ramp when the toy car travelled 15cm?
How far did the toy car travel when the ramp was at 30°?
At what angle was the ramp when the toy car travelled 10cm?
When the ramp was at 55° how far did the toy car travel?
What do you think will happen if the ramp is set at 90°?

19. 1. Scores achieved in road safety test:
18, 14, 10, 16, 15, 14, 11, 15, 14, 20, 18, 14, 11, 20 , 14
2. Distances travelled to school:
28, 76, 64, 23, 28, 28, 90, 23, 23, 27, 28, 23, 23, 34
3. Ages of children in Years 5 and 6:
11, 10, 11, 9, 11, 10, 9, 11, 11, 9, 10, 9, 9, 10
4. Shoe sizes:
2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 3, 5, 1, 13, 12, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3,
5, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 1, 3
5. Ages at which people passed their driving tests:
28, 27, 18, 35, 42, 19, 26, 32, 19, 26, 31, 26, 35
6. Distances travelled in metres by a clockwork toy:
3.4, 3.7, 3.6, 3.9, 3.1, 3.6, 3.4, 3.4, 3.8, , 3.2, 3.4, 3.8, 3.1, 3.7, 3.4, 3.2, 3.4