Data Handling Quizzes for Year 2 Maths: Test Your Skills

Question 1

What does a tally chart show?

Accepted Answer

How often something happens

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The different types of things in a group

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The highest and lowest values in a set of data

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The average of a set of data

Question 2

How many apples are represented by this pictogram? (image of a pictogram with 5 apples)

Accepted Answer

5

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2

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10

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15

Question 3

What is a good question to ask when collecting data about the weather?

Accepted Answer

What is the temperature outside?

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What is your favourite colour?

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What is the date today?

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What is your name?

Question 4

What does the mode of a set of data represent?

Accepted Answer

The most frequent value

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The highest value

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The lowest value

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The average value

Question 5

Which of the following is a measure of how spread out a set of data is?

Accepted Answer

Range

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Mean

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Median

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Mode

Question 6

What does each tally mark stand for?

Accepted Answer

One piece of data

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Two pieces of data

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Five pieces of data

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Ten pieces of data

Question 7

Which of these pictures shows the most data?

Accepted Answer

A picture of 20 cars

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A picture of 5 apples

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A picture of 10 pencils

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A picture of 15 flowers

Question 8

What does the key in a pictogram tell us?

Accepted Answer

How many pieces of data are represented by each picture

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What the pictures represent

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The total number of pieces of data

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The date the data was collected

Question 9

What does the height of a bar in a bar chart show?

Accepted Answer

The number of data points

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The category of data

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The average value of the data

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The percentage of data points

Question 10

What does the title of a graph tell you?

Accepted Answer

What the data is about

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How the data is measured

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The biggest and smallest values in the data

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The average value in the data

Question 11

Which of these is an example of 'qualitative' data?

Accepted Answer

Your favorite color

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The number of pets you have

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The height of the tallest tree in your garden

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The temperature outside

Question 12

Which type of chart would be best for showing how many students are in each class at your school?

Accepted Answer

A bar chart

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A pie chart

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A line chart

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A scatter chart

Question 13

What is the 'mode' of the following data set: 5, 7, 9, 11, 11, 13?

Accepted Answer

11

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7

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9

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13

Question 14

Look at the tally chart. How many children like vegetables?
[Image of tally chart with 5 tallies]

Accepted Answer

5

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2

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10

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15

Question 15

Which of these would be a good way to collect data about the favourite colours of a class?

Accepted Answer

Ask everyone

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Watch what colours people are wearing

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Guess everyone's favourite colour

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Experiment with different colours

Question 16

Farmer Joe wants to show how many apples, oranges, and bananas he picked from his farm. What information should be included in his tally chart?

Accepted Answer

The number of each type of fruit picked (e.g., 10 apples, 5 oranges, 7 bananas)

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The colors of the fruits

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The names of the people who helped to pick the fruits

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The weather conditions during the fruit-picking day

Question 17

What is the difference between a tally chart and a pictogram?

Accepted Answer

A tally chart uses numbers, while a pictogram uses pictures.

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A pictogram uses numbers, while a tally chart uses pictures.

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A tally chart shows how often something happens, while a pictogram shows the spread of data.

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A pictogram shows how often something happens, while a tally chart shows the spread of data.

Question 18

What is used to count how many times something happens?

Accepted Answer

Tally chart

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Bar chart

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Pictogram

Question 19

What shows information using pictures?

Accepted Answer

Pictogram

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Tally chart

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Bar chart

Question 20

Which of these is not a type of data?

Accepted Answer

Words

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Numbers

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Pictures

Question 21

How many different types of pencils are in the picture below: [Image of 3 different pencils]

Accepted Answer

3

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2

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4

Question 22

What are good ways to collect data?

Accepted Answer

Both of the above

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Asking questions

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Watching people

Question 23

Which of these is NOT a method for collecting data?

Accepted Answer

Inventing information

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Asking questions

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Observing

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Reading sources

Question 24

Which picture shows the most people?

Accepted Answer

[Image of 11 people]

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[Image of 5 people]

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[Image of 7 people]

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[Image of 9 people]

Question 25

What does the horizontal axis on a bar chart show?

Accepted Answer

Types of data

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Number of votes

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Time of day

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Weather conditions

Question 26

Which of these is an example of non-numerical data?

Accepted Answer

Favourite colour

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Number of students in a class

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Time to run a race

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Temperature

Question 27

Which type of data display is suitable for showing changes over time?

Accepted Answer

Line graph

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Pie chart

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Bar chart

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Scatter plot

Question 28

What's the purpose of a title on a data display?

Accepted Answer

To explain what the display is about

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To make it look nice

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To hide the data

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To confuse the viewer

Question 29

Which chart shows the children's favourite colours: 4 blue, 3 red, 2 yellow, and 1 green?

Accepted Answer

(Tally chart: Blue: ||||, Red: |||, Yellow: ||, Green: |)

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(Tally chart: Red: ||||, Blue: |||, Yellow: ||, Green: |)

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(Tally chart: Yellow: ||||, Blue: |||, Red: ||, Green: |)

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(Tally chart: Green: ||||, Blue: |||, Yellow: ||, Red: |)

Question 30

How many children in the class have brown hair? There are 3 with blonde hair, 2 with black hair, and 4 with brown hair.

Accepted Answer

4

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2

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3

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6

Question 31

Which of these is NOT a way to collect information?

Accepted Answer

Writing a story

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Asking questions

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Counting objects

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Observing

Question 32

What can we find out by gathering and counting information?

Accepted Answer

What is the most popular colour in our class?

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Who is the Prime Minister of England?

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What is the solar system made of?

Question 33

Which picture shows the most apples?

Accepted Answer

[Image of a picture with 7 apples]

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[Image of a picture with 5 apples]

Question 34

How many pencils are there?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

[Image of 3 pencils]

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5

Question 35

Which bar chart shows that apples are the most popular fruit?

Accepted Answer

(Image of a bar chart with 'Apple' having the highest bar)

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(Image of a bar chart with 'Banana' having the highest bar)

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(Image of a bar chart with 'Orange' having the highest bar)

Question 36

How should we NOT collect data?

Accepted Answer

Guessing

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Interviews

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Observations

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Surveys

Question 37

What is a pictogram used for?

Accepted Answer

To show data with pictures

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To find the average

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To compare different sets of data

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To predict the future

Question 38

Which tally chart shows that 5 students like apples, 3 students like bananas, and 2 students like oranges?

Accepted Answer

Apples: |||||      Bananas: |||      Oranges: ||

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Apples: ||      Bananas: ||||      Oranges: |||

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Apples: |||      Bananas: ||      Oranges: |||||

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Apples: ||||      Bananas: |||      Oranges: ||

Question 39

Which pictogram correctly shows that 2 students have dogs and 3 students have cats?

Accepted Answer

[dog] = 2 students      [cat] = 3 students

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[dog] = 3 students      [cat] = 2 students

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[dog] = 1 student      [cat] = 3 students

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[dog] = 2 students      [cat] = 1 student

Question 40

There are 10 students in a class. 3 students have green eyes. How many students do not have green eyes?

Accepted Answer

7

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4

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8

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6

Question 41

Which question will help you find out students' favorite colors?

Accepted Answer

What is your favorite color?

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What is your favorite shape?

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How many colors can you name?

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Do you like the color red?

Question 42

Which of the following is NOT a way to organize data?

Accepted Answer

By feeling

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By shape

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By size

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By color

Question 43

Which of the following is an advantage of using graphs to show data?

Accepted Answer

Graphs make it easier to see patterns and trends.

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Graphs can be used to predict the future.

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Graphs are more fun than tables.

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Graphs are more accurate than tables.

Question 44

Tom saw these cars: red, blue, red, red, silver, red, blue. Which colour car did Tom see the most?

Accepted Answer

Red

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Yellow

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Blue

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Silver

Question 45

The tally chart shows the pets in Class 2B:
Cat: |||
Dog: |||||
Fish: ||
Which pet do the fewest children in Class 2B own?

Accepted Answer

Fish

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Dog

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Cat

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None, they all have the same amount

Question 46

A pictogram shows that 3 children like to play football. If each picture stands for one child, how many pictures should be on the pictogram?

Accepted Answer

3 pictures

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1 picture

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2 pictures

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4 pictures

Question 47

To find out the most popular ice cream flavour in your class, what question should you ask?

Accepted Answer

What's your favourite ice cream flavour?

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What's your favourite food?

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How old are you?

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Do you like ice cream?

Question 48

What is data?

Accepted Answer

Information we collect about something

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A type of drawing

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A kind of animal

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A musical instrument

Question 49

Why do we use pictograms and charts to show data?

Accepted Answer

To make it easier to understand and compare information

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To make our work look colourful

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Because they are fun to look at