Data word problems set at a school summer fair for Year 3 maths. Pupils read a bar chart of cake sales, a pictogram of tombola winners and a table of bouncy castle visits, answering how many more questions, checking a claim against the pictogram, and working out takings at £2 a ticket. Answers show full working. Matches the England National Curriculum two-step questions objective.
Statistics
“Solve one-step and two-step questions [for example, 'How many more?' and 'How many fewer?'] using information presented in scaled bar charts and pictograms and tables.”
All three fair stalls present scaled data with one-step and two-step questions.
Read a bar chart of cake sales and compare chocolate against lemon.
Read a pictogram of winning tickets and explain whether a claim about it is correct.
Use a table to total Key Stage 1 visits, judge a true-or-false statement and calculate takings at £2 a ticket.
Solutions with working shown for every question.
Main activity
Three data sources make a full independent session after chart-reading is taught.
Assessment check
The reasoning questions separate chart readers from chart interpreters.
Homework
The fair story keeps all three sections connected for home working.
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