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)
types of vehicles
motorbike
lorry
car
bicycle
van
bus
frequency
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
motorbike
types of vehicle
lorry
car
bicycle
van
bus
0
20
40
60
frequency
80
100
Pictogram to show numbers
of bicycles sold in one week
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Days of the Week
= 10 cycles
Fri
Sat
Pictogram - Frequency Table
Cycle helmet
Number sold
Trailblazer
24
Valhalla
37
Firefox
25
Valkyrie
16
Vixen
44
Rally
35
Roadrunner
41
Sonic III
29
Colours of cars passing school on Monday
Spring/Summer 2006
Autumn/Winter 2006
Number of cars counted
Number of cars counted
400
200
Number of people passing their driving test
by gender
Pie Chart Questions
1. What percentage of women passed their driving test in
1975 - 1976?
2. What percentage of men passed their driving tests
between 1985 – 1986??
3. How many more men than women passed their driving
tests in 2002?
4. Estimate how many men passed their driving tests in
the period shown altogether.
5. What might the data look like for 2006? Explain why
you think this.
Travelling to school
summer?
OR
Travelling to school
winter?
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.
Line graph to show a cyclist’s journey
60
Distance
40
(m)
20
0
10
20
Time (mins)
30
40
Line graph to show how far a toy car travelled down a ramp at different angles
80
60
Angle
of ramp
(°)
40
20
0
5
10
15
Distance travelled (cm)
20
Line Graph Questions
1. At what angle was the ramp when the toy car
travelled 15cm?
2. How far did the toy car travel when the ramp was
at 30°?
3. At what angle was the ramp when the toy car
travelled 10cm?
4. When the ramp was at 55° how far did the toy car
travel?
5. What do you think will happen if the ramp is set at
90°?
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,
3.9, 3.2, 3.4, 3.8, 3.1, 3.7, 3.4, 3.2, 3.4