Year 10 Cumulative Frequency Worksheets (GCSE) | Printable PDFs
Year 10 Cumulative Frequency worksheets for Year 10 Maths (Key Stage 4, GCSE). Year 10 students learn how to draw and interpret cumulative frequency diagrams, which show the total number of values up to a given point.
Students here learn how to read the median, lower quartile and upper quartile from a graph and find the interquartile range (IQR) (upper quartile minus the lower quartile). For worksheets on histograms see Year 10 Histograms Worksheets.
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Cumulative Frequency
Common Questions about Year 10 Cumulative Frequency
What is cumulative frequency?
Cumulative frequency is a running total of frequencies, showing how many values are less than or equal to a particular value.What information can be found from a cumulative frequency graph?
You can estimate the median, lower quartile, upper quartile and interquartile range from a cumulative frequency graph.How do you draw a box plot from a cumulative frequency diagram?
Use the graph to find the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and maximum, then plot these five values on a box plot.
Year 10 Cumulative Frequency Common Mistakes
Common Mistake 1
A common mistake is plotting the cumulative frequency against the midpoint of each class interval instead of the upper class boundary.Common Mistake 2
Students often misread the quartiles from the graph by using the wrong cumulative frequency values for the lower quartile, median and upper quartile.Common Mistake 3
Another common mistake is drawing a box plot without using all five key values: minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and maximum.
Cumulative Frequency Worksheets - Free Worksheets Above
Cumulative Frequency Diagrams (A)
Cumulative Frequency Diagrams (B)
Drawing Box Plots from Cumulative Frequency Diagrams