Foods I like

Foods I like

Pencil and paper
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This task is about constructing a bar graph.

Ms Kane asked the children in her class which of these foods they liked the best.

This is the tally chart she drew.  

 

Bananas

illustration: banana

Ice-cream

illustration: ice cream

Pears

illustration: pear

Muffins

illustration: muffin

Hotdogs

illustration: hotdog

 

Draw a bar graph below using the numbers in the tally chart.

Remember to give the graph a title.

 
Title: ________________________________________________________

 

empty graph

Task administration: 
This task can be complete with pencil and paper.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
tally charts, bar graphs, graph construction
Description of task: 
Students construct and give a title for a bar graph of favourite food from data in a tally chart.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' understanding of constructing a bar graph from information in a tally chart.
 
Key competencies
This resource involves completing a graph from a table of data. 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 (08/1999)
A bar graph with the bars not touching and evenly spaced.

Title mentions at least two  (2 marks) of:
"food", "liked best", or "Mrs Kane's class". [Accept words with similar meanings.]

Title mentions one (1 mark) of:
"food", "liked best", or "Mrs Kane's class". [Accept words with similar meanings.]

Foods Mrs Kane's class liked best

 easy

2 marks – very difficult

1 mark – moderate

all 5 bars drawn correctly – easy

4 bars drawn correctly – very easy