These activities are intended for use by teachers for research purposes only, as part of the Task Types and Mathematics Learning (TTML) project at Monash University. No authority is granted for persons to use these activities beyond the scope of this project, without express permission of the TTML Project Leader.
These activities will progressively be available for download. Where a hyperlink is evident in the activity header, a Word document with a more detailed description of the eactivity and how it was used, photos, student work samples and analysis is available.
Trialled at Timbarra Primary School, 2008 with Grades 5 and 6 students
Weather Project
Recording rainfall and temperature each day for 2 weeks, calculating the average, median and mode and presenting the data in a graph.
Weather Project lesson plan (pdf, 602Kb)
Most Commonly Used Letters
Counting and recording how often each letter appears in a piece of writing. Making a graph to represent this.
Most Commonly Used Letters (pdf, 286Kb)
Using Excel to Present Data
Using Excel to Present Data (pdf, 325Kb)
This Goes with This
Using a strip of cardbard to turn a strip graph into a pie chart.
This goes with this (pdf, 454Kb)
Finding Similar Graphs
Choosing a graph and finding other people with the same kind of graph.
Finding similar graphs (pdf, 393Kb)
Rock Paper Scissors
Recording and presenting in a graph how often rock, paper and scissors win.
Rock, Paper, Scissors (pdf, 418Kb)
Matching Graphs
Matching up pie charts and bar graphs representing the same data.
Matching Graphical Representations activity (pdf, 446Kb)
Two Way Tables
Surveying the class on two questions and representing answers in a two way table.
Two way tables (pdf, 360Kb)
Seven People went Fishing
If the mean number of fish was 5, the median was 4, and the mode was 3, how many fish did each person catch?
Seven people went fishing (pdf, 274Kb)
Clues on Cards
From cards giving clues about the mean, median, mode, and range, you work together to find out what the data are.
Clues On Cards (pdf, 1.1Mb)
Using Excel to Present Data
Trying different charts and graphs to find the best for presenting the Letter Frequency data.
Conducting a Survey
Surveying the class and recording each answer as a fraction of the whole class.
Average Height of Class
Measuring height, laying out streamers in order and working out the median, mean, mode and range of height for the class.
Average Height of Class (pdf, 843Kb)
Average Height in School
Which year level would students with an average height of 135cm be in?
How would you find out the average height of Timbarra students ?
Average Height of School (pdf, 267Kb)
A Sentence with 5 Words
A sentence of 5 words with an average of 4 letters each but none with exactly 4 letters. How many letters might each word have had?
A Sentence With Five Words (pdf, 216Kb)
