KS2 Maths Lessons: Statistics (pictograms, bar charts & line graphs)
Challenge level ⭐⭐
(designed for children with prior knowledge of the Year 3 and Year 4 programme of study)
Learning Objective
- We are learning how to present and interpret data in a bar chart.
- We are learning how to solve comparison, sum and difference problems using the information presented in a bar chart.
Clip Description
A woodland is an area of land, where trees dominate and compete for sunlight. The leaves of trees overlap and interlink to shade the ground. These green habitats provide food and shelter for a wide variety of animals.
In this fascinating clip, we take a journey into Wytham Wood – an ancient, broadleaved woodland in Oxfordshire. High up in a tree, we see a woodpecker feeding its young. On the forest floor, badgers can be seen grooming each other. How many different animal species can you see? Watch the clip to find out.
Whiteboard Number Challenge
Badgers are social animals that live together in an underground burrow called a sett. You will usually find between 4 and 8 animals living together in a sett.
A small city woodland had 4 separate setts and a total population of 24 badgers.
Can you use the number fact above (bold) to calculate how many badgers could have been living in each of the four setts? Is there more than one possible answer?