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Level 1 statistics

That’s A Possibility, by Bruce Goldstone Publisher: Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 0805089985
Description	Introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations.
Mathematics	Probability, vocabulary.
Probably pistachio, by Stuart J. Murphy Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780739843840 Activity based on this book.
Description	Over a day Jack discovers the meanings of certain, likely and possible.
Mathematics	Probability, vocabulary.

Level 2 statistics

That’s A Possibility, by Bruce Goldstone Publisher: Henry Holt & Company ISBN: 0805089985
Description	Introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations.
Mathematics	Probability, vocabulary.
Lemonade for sale, by Stuart J. Murphy Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780064467155 Activity based on this book.
Description	The kids club track the success of their lemonade stall by graphing their sales for a week.
Mathematics	Bar graphs.

Level 3 statistics

Uno’s garden, by Graeme Base Publisher: Penguin Viking ISBN: 0670041912 Activity based on this book.
Description	Uno arrives in the forest and is surrounded by a diversity of animals and plants. As the human population grows in one pattern it affects the other populations in other patterns.
Mathematics	Populations.
A very improbable story, by Edward Einhorn Publisher: Charlesbridge ISBN: 9781570918728 Activity based on this book.
Description	A humourous exploration of probability that happens when Ethan wakes up to find a cat on his head. Set up several investigations of odds and develops statistical vocabulary.
Mathematics	Probability and chance.
Anno’s three little pigs, by Mitsumasa Anno and Tuyosi Mori Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books ISBN: 03070308980 This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Description	The wolf is trying to locate one of the three little pigs. He explores combinations and permutations in the process.
Mathematics	Combinations and permutations.
Tell me if you like, by Gérard Gréverand Publisher: Pavilion Children’s Books ISBN: 184365010X This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Description	A book of imaginative questions that can be used as springboards for developing surveys using different formats such as multiple choice, or continuums, or yes/no.
Mathematics	Statistics, survey.

Level 4 statistics

If the world was a village: A book about the world’s people, by David J. Smith Publisher: Kids Can ISBN: 1550747797 Activity based on this book.
Description	This book asks the reader to shrink that population to 100 people, a village, keeping the proportions intact and imagine what the village looks like.
Mathematics	Populations, percentages.
Anno’s three little pigs, by Mitsumasa Anno and Tuyosi Mori Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books ISBN: 03070308980 This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Description	Socrates the wolf is trying to locate one of the three little pigs. He explores combinations and permutations in the process.
Mathematics	Combinations and permutations.
World Watch Publisher: Harper Collins (2012) ISBN: 9780007488223 This book may no longer be available for purchase.
Description	Collins has compiled a wide range of statistics about world populations and presented them in a colourful and engaging way with info-graphics representing the proportional relationships within the data. Statistics on population, education and health, economy, environment and development are presented. It includes tables of individual countries data and a glossary.
Mathematics	Statistics, graphs, percentages.