Published by BEAM, these two games encourage students to develop their skills of sorting shapes using one criterion and numbers using one or two criteria.

*Sorting - a game for two players requiring one student to choose which shapes go inside the circle and to make up a label for the circle. The second...

Published by BEAM, these two data handling games are from the Maths of the Month series. Three digits - a game for two players. Each player takes turns to place a counter on a number. The winner is the first player to have three counters on numbers which contain the same digit. Venn Diagram Game - a game for two...

This game, published by BEAM, poses a number of questions aimed at developing students' understanding of simple probability using a set of number cards. Probably - a game for two players. The chooser chooses a card from the set of cards. The guesser has to guess whether the card id shows an odd or an even number....

In this Teachers TV programme, a Year Two teacher overcome her own fear of ICT while improving her teaching of data handling at Key Stage One by using the advice of a fellow teacher. Data handling is often conducted using traditional pen and paper methods in the classroom, but ICT offers an effective and simple way...

Histogram reconstruction is an activity designed to enable students to gain a deeper understanding of frequency density and how it is used in the construction of a histogram.

Students cut out bars from a rectangle with which students construct three histograms using the clues given in three partially...

The first video explains why computers use binary to store data.  The difference between a bit, nibble, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte and petabyte is explained.  These are known as measurements of capacity, or how much data can be stored either in memory or on secondary storage devices.

The...

This resource, aimed at lower ability Key Stage 4 students, introduces the concept of data compression, specifically Run Length Encoding. Students are asked to use an online tool to convert names into binary (ASCII), this binary data is then subjected to Run Length Encoding and encoded binary compared to the...

Using a spreadsheet as a grid of 'pixels', this computing activity teachers how 1's and 0's can store image data. The classroom exercises use images with increasing pixel resolution, looking at how this affects the clarity of the image. Moving from black-and-white images, the students then use grids of colour...

In this resource, the students are asked to look at various aspects of data security. In part this covers cyber security but it also looks at data integrity and ensuring that users data does not become corrupt through various means. There are a variety of activities provided, and all of the necessary resources are...

The first sheet of this excel file shows the number of passengers per flight from London to Paris. The raw data is shown in a grouped frequency table and the midpoint of each group can be revealed as well as each stage in the calculation of the estimate of the mean. The next two sheets each show two sets of data...

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at Year Two students explores data tables and graphs. New questions and data sets can be generated each time by the click of a button.

The first five sheets generates a...

This series of interactive excel sheets aimed at Year Three students explores collecting data, entering data into tables and drawing graphs. New data sets can be generated each time by the click of a button.

The first...

In this resource from CensusAtSchool, a set of data is presented with little background information. Students are invited, via a series of questions, to turn the data into usable, useful information applying both mathematical reasoning and use of statistical methods.

It encourages the use of spreadsheets as...

This resource is based on the Inventive podcast. The podcast mixes engineering fact with fiction. Each podcast features interviews with engineers. In this activity, CEO and chemical Engineer Enass Abo-Hamed, and integration engineer Majot Chana are the inspiration for George Sandifer-Smith to write 'Data is Truth...

In this activity from the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) students perform calculations and apply formulae to a spreadsheet of data collected by a data logger, in order to determine how many visitors to an aquarium at any one time.

The resource includes a presentation and teacher guidance.