Statistics - Data Squares

This week we have started talking about Statistics. To begin with we looked at a data square and talked about what it is.

A data square is a piece of paper that contains four pieces of information about one person.
In the data square above the information has come from four questions:

• Are you a boy or girl?
• Can you whistle?
• Are you the oldest, youngest or middle child in your family? (Only children are classed as oldest)
• Which hand do you write with to produce your neatest work?

Next we were given a set of data squares about about a group of people. In pairs we had to sort the data squares into different groups or categories and present this on a large sheet of paper. When we had finished we made statements about what we had noticed from the data.