Favourite ice creams

Favourite ice creams

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Overview
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Further Resources
This task is about reading information from a bar graph.
This graph shows what Jamie found out from his survey of favourite ice cream flavours.

Question 2Change answer

a)  Which flavour of ice cream was most popular?
     

Question 2Change answer

b)  Which flavour of ice cream was least popular?
     

Question

c)  How many children liked strawberry ice cream the best?

    • 1

    • 3

    • 4

    • 5

    • 6

Question

d)  How many more children liked chocolate ice cream than banana ice cream?

    • 1

    • 3

    • 9

    • 10

    • 11

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper and online (with auto-marking).
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
bar graphs, graph interpretation
Description of task: 
Students answer questions about a bar graph showing favourite ice-cream flavours. No calculation needed.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' understanding of interpreting specific features of a bar graph.
 
Key competencies
This resource involves interpreting statistical information in a graph. This relates to the Key Competency: Using language, symbols and text.

For more information see http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Key-competencies

Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 3
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (09/2000)

a)

Chocolate

very easy

b)

Banana

very easy

c)

D (5)

very easy

d)

C (9)

moderate