Level 1 statistics
That’s A Possibility, by Bruce GoldstonePublisher: Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 0805089985
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Description | Introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations. | |
Mathematics | Probability, vocabulary. | |
Probably pistachio, by Stuart J. MurphyPublisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780739843840
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Description | Over a day Jack discovers the meanings of certain, likely and possible. | |
Mathematics | Probability, vocabulary. |
Level 2 statistics
That’s A Possibility, by Bruce GoldstonePublisher: Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 0805089985
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Description | Introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations. | |
Mathematics | Probability, vocabulary. | |
Lemonade for sale, by Stuart J. MurphyPublisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780064467155
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Description | The kids club track the success of their lemonade stall by graphing their sales for a week. | |
Mathematics | Bar graphs. |
Level 3 statistics
Uno’s garden, by Graeme BasePublisher: Penguin Viking ISBN: 0670041912
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Description | Uno arrives in the forest and is surrounded by a diversity of animals and plants. As the human population grows in one pattern it affects the other populations in other patterns. | |
Mathematics | Populations. | |
A very improbable story, by Edward EinhornPublisher: Charlesbridge ISBN: 9781570918728
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Description | A humourous exploration of probability that happens when Ethan wakes up to find a cat on his head. Set up several investigations of odds and develops statistical vocabulary. | |
Mathematics | Probability and chance. | |
Anno’s three little pigs, by Mitsumasa Anno and Tuyosi MoriPublisher: Bodley Head Children's Books ISBN: 03070308980
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Description | The wolf is trying to locate one of the three little pigs. He explores combinations and permutations in the process. | |
Mathematics | Combinations and permutations. | |
Tell me if you like, by Gérard GréverandPublisher: Pavilion Children’s Books ISBN: 184365010X
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A book of imaginative questions that can be used as springboards for developing surveys using different formats such as multiple choice, or continuums, or yes/no.
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Mathematics | Statistics, survey. |
Level 4 statistics
If the world was a village: A book about the world’s people, by David J. SmithPublisher: Kids Can ISBN: 1550747797
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Description | This book asks the reader to shrink that population to 100 people, a village, keeping the proportions intact and imagine what the village looks like. | |
Mathematics | Populations, percentages. | |
Anno’s three little pigs, by Mitsumasa Anno and Tuyosi MoriPublisher: Bodley Head Children's Books ISBN: 03070308980
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Description | Socrates the wolf is trying to locate one of the three little pigs. He explores combinations and permutations in the process. | |
Mathematics | Combinations and permutations. | |
World WatchPublisher: Harper Collins (2012) ISBN: 9780007488223
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Description | Collins has compiled a wide range of statistics about world populations and presented them in a colourful and engaging way with info-graphics representing the proportional relationships within the data. Statistics on population, education and health, economy, environment and development are presented. It includes tables of individual countries data and a glossary. | |
Mathematics |
Statistics, graphs, percentages.
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