Statistics

National Curriculum (England): Key Stage 2 SATs · Year 6 · KS2 SATs (primary)

8 ready-made resources for teaching Statistics, written for Year 6 Maths (KS2 SATs). Slides, worksheets, mark schemes, homework, an assessment and retrieval quizzes, all with SEN-friendly scaffolding built in as standard. Below is what the topic requires and where pupils usually go wrong, free to read whether or not you sign up.

Independently rechecked. These files were written to the specification from our own topic maps, then put through a separate recheck pass from the one that wrote them, which found and fixed real errors. A subject teacher has not signed them off individually, so give them your usual read before you teach from them.

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What is in this bundle

Assessment mark schemeWord, editable
End-of-topic assessmentWord, editable
HomeworkWord, editable
Retrieval-practice quizzesWord, editable
SlidesPowerPoint, editable
Starter & exit ticketWord, editable
WorksheetWord, editable
Worksheet mark schemeWord, editable

What pupils need to be able to do

Read, build, and answer problem questions using pie charts.
Read, build, and answer problem questions using line graphs.
Calculate the mean of a data set, and understand it as one type of average, knowing when finding the mean is actually the appropriate thing to do for a given data set.

Where pupils go wrong

Reading a pie chart's segments as if their size directly gives a value, without converting the angle or area into a proportion of the whole first.
Constructing a pie chart by guessing segment sizes rather than calculating each category's angle as a proportion of 360°.
Calculating the mean by dividing by the number of categories or rows in a table, rather than the total number of individual data items.
Reading the wrong axis or the wrong scale interval on a line graph, especially when the interval between gridlines isn't a simple 1, 2, 5, or 10.
Assuming the mean is always the "right" average to use, rather than recognising when a data set (e.g. one with an extreme outlier) is better summarised another way.

How it gets asked in the exam

Paper 1 (arithmetic) style: not applicable, statistics is tested only through the reasoning papers.
Papers 2–3 (reasoning) style: "The pie chart shows how 60 pupils travel to school. How many travel by bus?", "Use the line graph to estimate the temperature at 2pm.", "Calculate the mean number of goals scored."

Key vocabulary

Pie chart, line graph, mean, average, data.

Assumed prior knowledge (Year 5)

Reading and interpreting information presented in tables, and completing/reading scales with a range of intervals.
Solving problems using data presented in a line graph.
Confident percentage calculation and angle facts (angles around a point sum to 360°): both needed to construct a pie chart correctly.

How Speca scaffolds this topic

Explicitly connect pie-chart construction to the percentages and angle-facts topics already covered, using the same "360° = one whole" visual language, rather than presenting pie charts as an unconnected new skill.
For line graphs, a consistent "find the value on one axis, trace across/up to the line, read the other axis" routine, modelled as a physical or on-screen tracing action every time, not just described in words.
Structure mean calculations as an explicit two-step chunk, "add up all the values" then "divide by how many values there are", since conflating these two counts (total vs. number of items) is the single most common error.

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