Football World Cup worksheets The FIFA World Cup starts next week in Brazil and what a brilliant opportunity it presents to investigate charts and tables as part of the Statistics (Data Handling) programme. We are excited to have just published a range of excellent pages which look at the World Cup, starting with a table showing how well England have done since the World Cup began in 1930. Of course, we thought we were too good to bother to enter the first few World Cups and when we did first enter in 1950, we lost two of the three games played. Actually we have done better since that time and of course, in 1966 we even managed to win. Another set of pages takes a close look at all the World Cup finals and it is interesting to note that there have only ever been 8 different winners of the cup: Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England, Argentina, France and Spain and all the winners have come from the continents of Europe and South America. Another interesting worksheet looks at the population of the countries that have got through to the finals and poses a hypothesis that the bigger the population the more likely they are to win. Costa Rica, with a population of less than 5 million would seem to be outsiders, but other countries with small populations, such as Croatia, Uruguay and Belgium will all think they have a great chance of winning. We also take a look at England’s progress through the preliminary rounds, where they remained undefeated, but still came in for a lot of criticism. If you are looking for some great up to the minute resources on the World Cup for children in the upper primary age range then these are just the job! There are also a couple of fun, ‘wet break’ word search and finding words from THE WORLD CUP. Take a look at our Football World Cup worksheets