Are your class ready to tackle a statistical challenge to show off all of their skills? Let them loose on our Year 3 Collect and Represent Data Discussion Problem! This resource includes an open-ended question where children are asked to think of a topic to collect data about, collect the data in a tally chart, then present the collected data in a bar chart and finally create questions about their data.

Due to the in-depth knowledge of statistics needed for this activity, we recommend that children have a secure understanding before they attempt this task. With this in mind, it would be the perfect activity to end your lesson or unit of work on. You can ask children to complete the activity in small groups or pairs to encourage mathematical discussions. Alternatively, you could display the question on screen for children to complete and compare their answers to each other. An example answer is provided and, it can be used to show children the multiple outcomes that are possible.