Ice-cream flavours

Ice-cream flavours

Pencil and paper
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This task is about creating and reading information from a strip graph.

This table shows the flavours of ice cream the students in Room 8 bought when on a field trip.  

Flavour Boys Girls
Vanilla (V)

2

2
Hokey Pokey (HP)

4

2
Strawberry (S)

1

5
Chocolate (C)

3

4
Other (O)

3

3
 
a)
 
Complete the strip graph for the flavours of ice cream the boys bought.
 

         Flavours of ice cream bought by Room 8 boys

 
 
b)
 
Complete the strip graph for the flavours of ice cream the girls bought.
 

Flavours of ice cream bought by Room 8 girls

 
 
c)		  
Why is the strip graph for girls longer than the strip graph for boys?
 

 

 

 
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
strip graphs, graph construction, graph interpretation
Description of task: 
Students complete two strip graphs about the flavour of ice cream bought by girls and boys, and answer a question on interpreting the data.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to construct graphs from a frequency table.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Statistical investigations, set 4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
 

Y6 (12/1998)
a)
(The flavours may be in any order)		 difficult
b)
(The flavours may be in any order)		 difficult
c) Because there are more girls than boys. moderate