Winter Averages Year 6 | Finding the Mean from Snowfall and Temperature Data

How much snow falls on an average day? This Year 6 maths pack teaches the mean as an average with winter data. Pupils learn the three steps (add, count, divide) from a worked example with a bar chart, find the mean of five sets of snowfall, temperature and sales data, read a week of snowfall from a table and a bar chart, find a missing value, compare two weeks of temperatures and solve problems.

What is included (6 A4 pages, numbered as printed in the footers):
• Page 1: teacher front page with learning objectives, National Curriculum link (Year 6 Statistics) and teaching notes.
• Page 2: What Is the Mean? Three steps, a worked example with a bar chart and a dashed mean line, and five sets of data to find the total and the mean of.
• Page 3: A Week of Snow. A made-up snow diary as a table and a bar chart, with questions on the total, the mean, drawing the mean on the chart, days above the mean, the day furthest from the mean, next week’s mean and a true or false table.
• Page 4: Mean Problems. A missing-value problem, two weeks of temperatures to compare, a total from a mean, a reason question and a challenge.
• Page 5: answer key.
• Page 6: a FUN CASE thank-you page.

All the data is made up for practice and is labelled as made up. Every mean is a whole number, so there is no rounding. Written in British English for England. About 45 minutes. Good for a Year 6 maths lesson on statistics, a winter topic, homework, revision, early finishers or cover work. Pupils can write on the sheets or answer orally.

One non-editable PDF. All drawings and the questions are original. Single-classroom licence.