Help Your Child with Maths
Help Your Child with Handling Data
Handling Data or statistics is an important part of all our lives and, when it is reliable it can improve understanding and help with decision making. Unfortunately, this is not always the case and when it is unreliable it can make you more confused and cause you to make wrong choices.
Create Reliable Data
Handling Data: The Big Six will help your child to:
- share reliable data with others; and
- ask questions to make sure the information they receive can be trusted.
Create and Understand Pie and Bar Charts
You and your child can conduct simple surveys at home and then use the links below to create and print their own pie and bar charts.
Encourage them to check their charts against the Handling Data: The Big Six check list to make sure it is reliable and to consider which type of chart works best for the information they are trying to share.
These 'How To Posters' are designed to avoid confusion by helping parents to explain pie charts and bar charts using diagrams and language that children will recognise from the classroom.