Lost golf balls

Lost golf balls

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This task is about reading information from a bar graph.

Misha and his sister Amelia live near a golf course. Each evening they go out to look for golf balls lost in the rough.

They drew this bar graph showing how many balls they picked up in one week.

Number of Golf balls found by Misha and Amelia over the week

graph of golf balls found by Misha and Amelia

Question 1Change answer

a)  What was Amelia's best day for finding golf balls, and how many did she find on that day?
Day ;  balls

Question 1Change answer

b)  What was Misha's worst day for finding golf balls, and how many did he find?
Day ;  balls

Question 2Change answer

c)  On how many days in the week did Misha find more golf balls than Amelia?
 days

Question 3Change answer

d)  What was the best day for the two of them combined, and how many golf balls did they find altogether on that day?
Day ;  balls
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper and online (with auto-marking).
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
composite graphs, bar graphs, graph interpretation, mode
Description of task: 
Students study a bar graph of golf balls found by two children and answer questions interpreting and comparing the data.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to interpret a composite bar graph.
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: 
 
Y7 (10/1996)
Y8 (10/1996)
a) Sunday: 9 balls very easy very easy
b) Tuesday: 0 balls easy very easy
c) 2 days easy very easy
d) Saturday: 16 balls easy easy
Diagnostic and formative information: 
  Common error Likely misconception
b) M & F: 2 Ignored the 'zero' reading.
d) Sat: 8 Misread the instructions (giving the number of balls each).