ESSENTIALmaths Year 3 maths plan: Statistics - interpreting bar charts and tables

This is an excellent series of lessons for Year 3, complete with an extensive range of supporting resources. In this learning sequence, pupils will construct and interpret bar charts in variety of contexts and orientation. They will look, firstly, at why bar charts are useful for organising information. They will be encouraged to retrieve information from bar charts, interpret and infer. There is no necessity in the Year 3 curriculum for pupils to draw entire bar charts from tables. Instead, they will focus on completing bar charts with scales provided.

HFL maths advisers have mapped and connected the curriculum in each year group term by term. Each half-term is developed with an easy to pick up and use set of sequences with step by step guidance. Examples of how concrete and pictorial representations can benefit pupils’ learning as well as other mastery techniques are included. Ideas to deepen and extend mathematical thinking for all learners, examples of great questions and resources to support pupils’ talk and reasoning are embedded.

The full suite of Year 1 to Year 6 ESSENTIALmaths planning materials are available to purchase from https://www.hertsforlearning.co.uk/resources/essentialmaths for both single and mixed-age classes.

Contact the HFL Education maths team at primarymaths@hfleducation.org for further information.