Climbing the wall

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This task is about interpreting a line graph.

Snail's progress up a wall

This graph shows a snail's progress as it climbed up a wall. Sometimes the snail was climbing and sometimes it was resting.

Question 1Change answer

a) How far did the snail climb in the first minute? cm

b) How far had the snail climbed after 8 minutes? cm

c) How far from the top of the wall was the snail after 11 minutes? cm

d) How long did the snail stop for during its climb of the wall? minutes

e) If the snail had kept climbing at the same rate without resting, how long would it have taken to climb the wall?

minutes

Task administration:

This task is completed with pencil and paper or online (WITH automarking).

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Description of task:

Students answer questions by interpreting a line graph of a snail's progress as it climbed up a wall.

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Diagnostic and formative information:

	Common error	Likely reason
c)	36	Gave distance up the wall rather than from the top.
e)	17	Included instead of excluded the rest times.