ABSTRACT
Statistics and data handling can be an exciting and motivating area to explore with the children practising teachers teach. It is also, arguably, one of the most important areas of mathematics in which to develop skills in order to be able to make sense of and understand the world around us as presented through the media. Pupils will progress to be able to interpret data through constructing frequency tables, pictograms and bar and line graphs to show the frequency of events and changes over time. At this stage they will also understand how we use the mean, median and mode of a set of data. The data handling cycle introduced earlier is the big idea when working with children on developing their understanding of this strand. Collecting, organising and interpreting data is at the heart of the mathematical ideas.
