Statistics

The ability that ICT has to process large quantities of information can be extremely useful if it allows pupils greater opportunities to analyse and interpret their results.

It is important to remember that the National Curriculum requires that pupils 'should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through tasks focused on using appropriate ICT (for example, spreadsheets, databases, geometry or graphic packages)'.

In addition to the four sub-strands of Statistics there is an additional section called 'Handling data problems', in which there are large databases for pupils to manipulate with ICT in an attempt to answer a question posed of them. These cover more than one sub-strand, and would normally form the basis of a sequence of lessons.