House sales

House sales

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
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Month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Target Sales

100

150

150

200

250

50

300

200

450

600

350

50

The table above shows the number of houses the Swift Real Estate Agency are hoping to sell during each month over the next year.

Use the data shown in the table above to construct a pictograph in the space below. 

Remember your graph will need:

  • a title,
  • clear labels, and
  • a key.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Key Competencies: 
Using language, symbols, and texts
Keywords: 
pictographs, graph construction
Description of task: 
Students need to complete a pictograph of the target monthly house sales. This includes constructing the key, drawing in an axis, adding a title, and presenting the data.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to design a pictograph.
 
Key competencies
This resource involves designing a pictograph, including keys, titles, and scales. This relates to the Key Competencies: Using language, symbols and text.
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: 
Example of pictograph.

 
Y8 (11/2002)
  • A pictograph is drawn (1 mark - easy)     
  • Key given with a symbol and reasonable unit used, e.g.,   = 100 or 50 houses (1 mark - easy)            
  • Appropriate title given (must mention sales and year/month) (1 mark - easy) 
  • Line drawn (on the x- or y- axis) with all months of the year written along the line at even intervals (1 mark - very easy)
  • Houses (or other symbol) drawn/plotted correctly for each month (2 marks - easy)
  • Errors include incorrect number of houses drawn for a given month (1 mark for 1-2 errors)
  • Little variation in size of houses drawn in, and aligned reasonably well, may have drawn houses on a grid) (1 mark - difficult)