Data Handling Games

These data handling games and activities help children to understand how data can be displayed in various ways including pictograms, bar charts, pie charts and tally charts. They provide opportunities for data analysis and for children to create their own bar and tally charts.

2D Shapes Sorting Using Carroll Diagrams

Sort 2D shapes on Carroll diagrams. There are four levels of difficulty and sorting is by two criteria. The criteria change so the games are replayable.

Carroll Diagrams - Odd and Even

Sort numbers on these Carroll Diagrams by whether they are odd or even, by place value or by more or less than a given number.

Bar Charts

Interpret data using bar charts. A number of different levels available with optional scoring for game playing.

Fishing

Catch the fish and then use the pictogram to count how many of each fish you caught.

Fruit Fall

First catch the fruit to make the pictogram and then answer the questions to see how many items you collected.

Pictograph Game

A simple pictograph game where you answer five questions about the data.

Tally Chart Game

Answer questions by looking at the data on the tally chart.

Data Analysis Explorer

In this game you need to help the Jelly Fish Fruit Snack Factory to see which flavours are the most popular with their customers. You will need to collect data, order data by tallying and make a bar graph.