Targeting Level 4 in Year 7: Section Three - Handling Data Lessons

These lessons, from the Targeting Level 4 programme by the National Strategies, are designed to support teachers working with year seven students who need to consolidate work at level three and extend into level four. The lessons, which are quite detailed, focus on teaching strategies to address the stated learning objectives. They also provide support for teaching assistants working under the supervision of a teacher.

The handling data lessons are organised in units of work corresponding to the year seven intervention plan. Each lesson includes material to support about 30 to 40 minutes of direct teaching.

The topics in these lessons cover, how to organise small sets of data, constructing frequency tables for discrete data and graphs and diagrams, on paper and using a computer, to represent data, solving a problem by extracting and interpreting data in tables, graphs and charts, calculating statistics for small sets of discrete data especially finding the mode, median and range and the mean in simple cases.