Year 5 · Spring term · Statistics · Step 4
Year 5 Two-way tables worksheets
Read two-way tables, complete them using totals, and use distance tables. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- A film is shown twice in one day. The table shows how many adults and how many children watched each showing.How many children watched the 7:00 pm showing? ____
Show the answer
10
- The table shows how many adults and children visited a museum on two days.Did more adults or more children visit over the two days? ____How many more? ____
Show the answer
Children; 14
- Teams get points for each event at a swimming gala. Some of the points have been washed off the table. Work out the missing points and write them in the table.How many points did the Blue team get for backstroke? ____How many points did all the teams get altogether? ____
Show the answer
65; 655
- The table shows some tall buildings.Which building was built most recently? ____How many metres taller is the tallest building than the shortest? ____ m
Show the answer
Skyline; 138
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.