Lunch food

Lunch food

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
Miss Ward's class asked 100 children what their favourite lunchtime food was. This table shows what they found out.
 

 

 

Sandwiches
40

Pies
30

Fruit
10

Biscuits
20


Finish the strip graphbelow to show the information in the table.

  • Shade each part of the graph adifferentway.
  • Label each food on the graph.

  

Favourite lunchtime food
 

Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil and paper only.
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Statistics, Statistical investigations
Keywords: 
strip graphs, graph construction
Description of task: 
Students construct and label a strip graph from a table of data about favourite lunchtime foods.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can be used to help to identify students' ability to construct a graph 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.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (03/2000)


 All parts of the graph are correctly divided and labelled and are shaded differently (see above).
 
Makes 1 of the following errors in the strip graph:

  • 1-2 errors in the bar lengths.
  • The graph is not shaded.
  • The graph has all been shaded the same way.
  • There are no labels or missing labels.

  
 
 
2 correct - moderate
 
1 correct - easy
 
NOTE: Accept foods in any order on the graph.