Fireworks

Fireworks

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Working with Students

 Fire works sold at the Park avenue store

  

Sparklers
Whirly Birds
Screaming Meemees
Volcanoes
Shooting Stars
Fiery Rains

Key:
$ = Ten dollars
= Five dollars

 
The pictogram shows the fireworks sold at the Park Avenue store.
 
a)		   
How much was spent on Volcanoes? $ __________
 
b) Which two kinds of firework had the same amount spent on them?
 
____________________ and ____________________

c)		  
How much was spent on Fiery Rains? $ __________

d)
Customers spent twice as much on Sparklers as they did on ____________________.

e)		  
How much was spent altogether on fireworks at the shop? $ __________
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
pictographs, graph interpretation
Description of task: 
Students need to answer questions about a pictogram which shows how much money was spent on different fireworks at a store.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a pictograph.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y6 (06/98)
a) $50 very easy
b) Whirly Birds and Shooting Stars very easy
c) $45 easy
d) Screaming Meemees moderate
e) $260 moderate

 

Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely reason
a) 
c) 
e)		 5
4 1/2
26		 Interprets each "$" as $1 rather than $10.