KS2 Maths reasoning (SATs) textbook

Chapter 8: Statistics and data

Strand Statistics
Level Year 6
Practice 82 questions with step-by-step solutions

KS2 SATs practice for reasoning (Year 6). Original questions in the style of the national tests. Content: Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information in graphs and tables (Year 5-6), Complete, read and interpret tables, including timetables (Year 5), Interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs, and use them to solve problems (Year 6), Calculate the mean as an average, and find a missing value when the mean is known (Year 6), Find the mode, median and range of a data set (Year 5-6), Compare two data sets and explain which is more suitable, and why (Year 6), Say whether a conclusion from a graph is valid, and explain (Year 6).

Open Year 6 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

Read a table or bar chart, and add or subtract the values to answer a question
Work out the angle or the number of people in a pie chart sector
Read a line graph and find the change between two readings
Find the mean, median, mode and range of a set of values
Compare two data sets, and say whether a conclusion from a graph is fair

You should already know

Reading bar charts and tables (Year 4 and Year 5 statistics)
Multiplication, division and fractions of amounts (Chapter 2 of this book)

Where this leads

Practice paper: reasoning (Chapter 9 of this book)

Lessons in this chapter

Read the whole chapter on one page (good for printing).

Practise with real exam questions

The DfE publishes every past KS2 test, with mark schemes, for free.

KS2 Maths reasoning (SATs) past papers