Cleaning the beach II

Cleaning the beach II

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This task is about reading information from a pie graph.
Children from Cockle Bay School spent an afternoon cleaning up their local beach. The pie graph shows the types of rubbish they collected.
 
Cockle bay beach rubbish collection
 
pie graph of rubbish picked up at Cockle bay

Question

a)  Which two types of rubbish made up half of the rubbish collected? Select two

    • Metal

    • Glass

    • Paper

    • Plastic

    • Wood

    • Other

Question

b)  Three times more plastic rubbish was collected than which other type? Select one

    • Metal

    • Glass

    • Paper

    • Plastic

    • Wood

    • Other

Question

c)  Which two types of rubbish were collected in nearly the same amounts? Select two

    • Metal

    • Glass

    • Paper

    • Plastic

    • Wood

    • Other

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper or online.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
pie graphs, graph interpretation, rubbish
Description of task: 
Students interpret information presented in a pie graph to answer questions.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a pie graph.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (05/1998)
a) Plastic and Paper very easy
b) Wood easy
c) Metal and Glass easy
Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely reason
a) Paper/glass or metal/glass Does not interpret half of the pie chart accurately.
c) Paper/glass or paper/metal Interprets the "paper" segment as being of equal size to the "glass" or "metal" segment.