1. Year 3-5 Open-ended Mathematics Activities
Statistics & Probability
Open-ended Maths Activities
By Peter Sullivan & Pat Lilburn
Teaching and Assessing Maths through Open-ended Activities
By Pat Lilburn & Irene Sawczak

2. Draw a diagram to show what the spinner might look like.
Chance
Emily spun a spinner 20 times. It landed on red and yellow eight times each, on green three times and on blue once.
Draw a diagram to show what the spinner might look like.

3. What are some outcomes that have a one in two chance?

4. What might the graph look like?
Data
A survey of pets owned by students in a class showed that thee were more cats than dogs and more dogs than birds.
What might the graph look like?

5. What might the frequency table look like?
Data
A frequency table showed that there were more children with brown hair in our class than blonde or black hair. In fact only two children had black hair.
What might the frequency table look like?