How many packed lunches does this table show for Hazel in the Tuesday column? Choose the number, then tap the cell you took it from.
This engine’s own main skill is Reading a value out of a table. It practises compare table values alongside it.
Run along the Hazel row until you reach the Tuesday column: the two meet at 16. Reading down instead of across lands on 4, which is a real cell of this table and the wrong one, and that swap is the slip worth naming out loud every time you use a table. Keep a finger on the row and a finger on the column and bring them together, rather than trusting your eye to stay level.
Step 1. Read it. Choose the number the table shows.
Step 2. Show where. Now tap the cell you read it from.
What to say if they get stuck
Find the bar, row or slice the question names before you read anything. Getting the label right matters as much as the reading.
The scale does not always count up in single steps. Work out what a single line is worth before you read anything off it.
Keep your finger level as you slide from the board across to the scale. Drifting up or down by a line is the commonest slip there is.
The 11+ does not test these skills in isolation, and practising one in the wrong order wastes the practice. These are the skills the curriculum map connects this one to.
How compare table values differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises one other skill, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: compare two values read from a table, and it stops where one comparison or difference only.
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Compare two values read from a table. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the data strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
The skill map puts read a table cell first. A comparison requires accurate cell retrieval. If compare table values keeps going wrong, that is the thing to check before doing more of this one.
"How many more" never means add the two figures together. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. Read both April seedlings figures out of the table first, then take the smaller one away from the larger one.
The skill map draws the line here: One comparison or difference only. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The data strand holds 9 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to compare table values are decode a pictogram key, interpret a pie-chart sector and read a bar-chart value. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Table Reader, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to compare table values, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Compare table values rests on something else being secure first
This skill depends on read a table cell. A free diagnostic checks those alongside every other maths skill, so you find out whether the problem is here or underneath it.
