Food groups

Food groups

Pencil and paper
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Ham Apple Steak
     




Banana Pumpkin Soda Pear
       




Water Strawberry Carrot Milk

 

Decide if each of these eleven items are vegetables, fruit, meat or drink. Finish the bar graph. The graph has been drawn for the vegetables (pumpkin and carrot).

 

Bar graph of the Types of Food
Vegetables
Fruit
Meat
Drink
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
bar graphs, graph construction
Description of task: 
Students construct a bar graph by categorising a range food items.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' understanding of constructing a bar graph.
 
Key competencies
This resource involves completing a graph.This relates to the Key Competency: Using language, symbols and text.
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)

2 marks
(all bars correct length)
or
1 mark
(one bar is wrong by 1 rectangle)
[Accept if the rectangles have the name of a food in them (or a number) rather than being shaded.]

all correct – easy

1 incorrect – very easy